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Catching Up With the Pied Piper, Ketch Secor

WNCW Program Director Joe Kendrick (left) with Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (left) 08/09/24
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WNCW Program Director Joe Kendrick (left) with Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (left) 08/09/24

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The Old Crow Medicine Show front man on 25 years as a string band leader, habitual collaborator, and connoisseur of Saturday night/Sunday morning fiddle jams, plus a “Wagon Wheel” podcast Reprise

Ketch was on this podcast two years ago in the episode titled “Painting A Portrait of 23 Years With Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show”, which is based on our conversation at MerleFest that year.

Old Crow Medicine Show’s famous song “Wagon Wheel” is the subject of an episode in this series from a few years before that, on the podcast titled “Wagon Wheel: Anatomy Of A Hit”, and I am attaching that episode to the end of this new conversation with Ketch Secor for everyone who missed it the first time or who might just want to hear it again.

Joe Kendrick grew up far off in the woods in rural Stanfield, NC, where he acquired his first Sony Walkman, listened to both AM and FM radio from Charlotte, went to Nascar races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, attended a small Baptist church, read Rolling Stone, subscribed to cassette clubs, and played one very forgettable season of high school football. From there, Joe studied Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was able to fulfill his dream of being a disc jockey at WXYC. He volunteered at WNCW soon after graduation.