It’s often been said that the three things America will be known for, once all is said and done, are jazz, baseball and the Constitution.
"I love baseball, and I love jazz, and I believe in the Constitution," Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor says. But, he adds, two things might outlast them all: The fiddle and the banjo.
The moment those two instruments met, he says, was "the Big Bang not of country music, but of all American popular music."
Secor also says country artists in Nashville could learn a thing or two from the mountains of East Tennessee. And he talks about writing the songs that propelled Old Crow's newest album, Remedy, to a Grammy nomination last week.
Ahead of Old Crow’s appearance at the Tennessee Theatre this week, Secor discusses music, Tennessee landscapes and life in a conversation with WUOT All Things Considered host Brandon Hollingsworth.