Now Playing: Old Crow Medicine Show - 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017)

Old Crow Medicine Show is a folk, country and old time music band from from Nashville, Tennessee. 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde is a track-for-track live album recreating Bob Dylan's 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. While Dylan's original and this re-imaging follow the same order of tacks, the arrangement of the tracks themselves are distinctly different. Pledging My Time becomes a breakdown and tracks like Obviously 5 Believers becomes a high energy madcap tune. The fiddle playing on both of these tracks is worth the effort alone. The first six tracks are all barn burners with Visions of Johanna and Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again proving that this album was always a good idea. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine is the energetic high point in the back half of the album. The recording rounds out, as expected, with Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Old Crows version puts a little spring into the original.

Little needs to be said about the source material - it's Blond on Blond by BobDylan - what is noteworthy here is the reinterpretation of the songs, the energy brought to bare and the beauty of the result.