Old Crow Medicine Show paint a picture of friendship and loss in “Dearly Departed Friend”

Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor copes with friendship and loss in “Dearly Departed Friend,” a song from the band’s new album Remedy, on July 1st. A chorus of “21 guns for 21 years and American flags in the wind,” paints the picture that the friend lost his life in war, and the tender, mid-tempo country song illustrates the narrator’s grave-site reminiscences at the funeral and his attempts to deal with his friend’s death. Remedy, Old Crow’s fourth album, was recorded at Sound Emporoum studios in Nashville. The band is playing the Philadelphia Folk Festival on August 15th; tickets and information can be found at the XPN Concert Calendar.