Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back – review

(ATO/Decca)The Nashville group almost imploded making this fourth album, but the bust-ups left no scars on their music. Instead comes a polished set of original songs that stretch their old-timey, southern identity into new shapes. The exuberant bluegrass of Carry Me Back to Virginia carries lyrics that revisit the horrors of the US civil war, while Levi mourns a soldier killed in Iraq, "a country boy who didn't belong in the desert". Amid breakneck banjo and fiddle romps such as Mississippi Sat...

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