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Fiddling Into Richmond: Chance McCoy Brings Bluegrass To Richmond Music Hall Tonight

Graham Stone | September 6, 2019

Topics: album release, banjo, Bluegrass, brady allen heck, chance mccoy, fiddle, graham stone music, guitar, Holy Roller, music, music video, Old Crow Medicine Show, Richmond Music Hall, rock and roll, wander wide

Best known for his work with Old Crow Medicine Show, Chance McCoy has plenty to offer on his own, and he’ll show it off in the river city tonight.

Tonight at the Richmond Music Hall, a virtuoso fiddler, guitarist, and banjo player will be diving into the local music scene with a performance featuring his latest album. 

Chance McCoy is best known as a member of GRAMMY-winning Americana powerhouse Old Crow Medicine Show — but Wander Wide, his debut solo album, reveals a remarkable depth and versatility beyond anything we’ve heard from him yet. 

Photo courtesy Chance McCoy

Captivating in its cross between the traditional and the progressive, the record shows little regard for the conventional boundaries of genre and decade. It blends old-school bluegrass melodies with modern rock and roll arrangements, and rich, atmospheric production. McCoy based the album off of a live residency show he put on weekly at The Basement in Nashville, and the studio recordings here tap into the same exuberant energy he brought to the stage every night, with performances that unexpectedly twist and turn, sometimes transitioning from one tune to the next within the same track.

Ahead of his upcoming show at Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House downtown, I reached out to Chance for an interview and came to find out he had actually been staying in Richmond while working on a major motion picture. 

He invited me over to his apartment, so I stopped by and had a nice talk with him and his bandmate, Jackie, about some of his past and recent work, including his upcoming album, Wander Wide. We talked about their time in Richmond and the various projects he’s been working on here, including his newest self-made music video (filmed right here in Richmond down at the Pipeline Rapids — see above). We also talked a bit about his time with Old Crow, his transition from old-time music to the varied sounds of his upcoming album, and where he plans to go moving forward.

Check out the interview with Chance below, and be sure to grab tickets to catch him tonight with Graham Stone Music and Brady Allen Heck of Holy Roller.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

No Blame To Give: Our Conversation With Gill Landry Before Wednesday’s Show At The Modlin Center

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 23, 2015

Topics: Gill Landry, interviews, Modlin Center, music, Old Crow Medicine Show, RVA

Gill Landry has been hanging around the music business for nearly 20 years, most of those years spent with the influential and wildly popular Americana group Old Crow Medicine Show, which started in the heart of Virginia. The multi-instrumentalist quickly became a stand-out at Old Crow shows, and with the start of his solo career in 2007, he’s shown that his deep appreciation and understanding of the folk genre makes him able to write new music in the genre that’s just as intricate and exceptional as the genre was forty years ago.

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Old Crow Medicine Show at Maymont taught me to love a good whistler

Brad Kutner | August 20, 2014

Topics: country music in RVA, Langhorne Slim, live show review, Maymont live shows, Old Crow Medicine Show, s

August 17, 2014 Old Crow Medicine show returned to Maymont for the first time since 2010 to bring their trademark old-time folk music to the masses of Richmond.

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Old Crow Medicine Show Brings Their Old-Time “Remedy” To Maymont This Sunday

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 15, 2014

Topics: interviews, Maymont, music, Old Crow Medicine Show, RVA

Old Crow Medicine Show are from Nashville, but their fusion of old-time country, bluegrass, and folk sounds is far from the typical sound coming out of Music City. Their newest album, Remedy, promises more folk twang and foot-stomping melodies than ever before. Ahead of their visit to Maymont this Sunday, August 17th, the humble and talented Chris “Critter” Fuqua spoke with us to share his experiences with the band and his thoughts on their newest album.

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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/13-8/19

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 13, 2014

Topics: Blistered, Cease To Resist, Cosby, Cretins, Cross Me, Eternal Summers, Fire & Ice, George Clinton, Globsters, Home Address, Innsbrook, Kid Is Qual, Langhorne Slim, Mas Y Mas, Maymont Park, Muerte, music, Naysayer, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old Gray, RVA, Scowler, Sete Star Sept, shows you must see, Small Hands, Spacemonster, strange matter, Teen Body, Tercer Mundo, The Broadberry, The Cales, The Camel, The Seeers, Those Manic Seas

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, August 16, 6 PM
Eternal Summers, The Seeers, Mas Y Mas @ Strange Matter – $6

Pay attention, people, because this is important. Roanoke’s Eternal Summers, whom we have been telling you about for a couple of years now, recently released their third album. The Drop Beneath hasn’t gotten a ton of hype (though Pitchfork came within a few decimal places of giving it a Best New Music-worthy rating), but in its own quiet way, has become a sleeper pick for best of 2014.
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