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There was just a really basic conversation . He was like, "Look, there's the singing cowboy – he's been around for a while. Now here comes the new guy. He's cuter, he's faster and he sings better. He's just better. It's the new model. He's coming for him." And, of course, it made it really special
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Watson performed with the group, writing and singing many of their more notable songs. He left to embark on a solo career in the autumn of 2011, a couple months before Fuqua rejoined the group, citing time on the road, new parenthood, and direction the band was headed as reasons for the split.
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He first met Ben Gould in high school and they began playing music together. Around Ithaca and next-door
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More than two-thirds of the songs I'm doing, no one knows where those things come from. So the guys that I heard them doing were essentially borrowing and reworking it themselves, and that's the beauty of
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Watkins to join them on a Cayamo cruise—a "singer-songwriter, folk, rootsy festival on a ship around the
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I don't have any regrets, but I'm really happy that I'm where I'm at now. I'm playing the music I want to play, and it's real simple, and I don't have a big light show–I'm in a good place with that.
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1509:"Old Crow Medicine Show comes to Cooperstown on May 26: String band to play at Brewery Ommegang"
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2151:"US Acts Willie Watson & Josh Hedley To Embark on Aus East Coast Tour"
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2357:"OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF COOKING THE MUSICAL GUMBO"
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The 26 Albums of 2014 You Probably Didn't But Really Should Hear
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1846:"The 26 Country Albums of 2014 You Need to Hear"
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