Article Contributed by Missing Piece Group
Published on January 24, 2026
Photo credit: Brooke Stevens
Old Crow Medicine Show have announced The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots, a run of intimate shows celebrating the two-time GRAMMY-winning band’s earliest recordings — and some of the rooms where those songs first took shape. Launching March 18 at Nashville’s historic Station Inn, the tour will feature the band performing the entirety of their first two releases, O.C.M.S. and Big Iron World, in a stripped-down configuration that spotlights the songs at the foundation of their catalog.
Tickets went on sale Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10 a.m. local time and are available now via the band’s website.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been 22 years since the launch of our O.C.M.S. album and 20 years since our second studio record, Big Iron World,” says the band’s frontman Ketch Secor. “Working with David Rawlings plus the presence of Gillian Welch is what really made the magic on these albums. Being a string band back in the early 2000s, well ahead of the Americana music movement, made us an odd fit in Music City. But going our own way despite the odds was the only foreseeable path for fiddles and banjos in the 21st century, and it worked. People heard it all around the world, and the doors came swinging open.”
The Back to the Roots concept reflects a band that helped define the modern American roots movement — and continues to lead it. By returning to these songs, these rooms, and this way of playing, Old Crow Medicine Show underline what they’ve always done best: push tradition forward, expand the reach of string-band and folk music, and remind audiences that songs built with care and conviction can last, travel, and keep finding new life.
In recent years, the band has stayed as prolific as ever, releasing their first-ever holiday album OCMS XMAS in December and following their GRAMMY-nominated 2023 album Jubilee, which celebrated their 25th anniversary. In 2024, the group made their NPR Tiny Desk Concert debut. Last summer, Secor released his first solo album, Story The Crow Told Me, and stepped into a new role as host of the long-running travel and culture series Tennessee Crossroads.
Tickets & Tour Info
https://www.crowmedicine.com/tour
The O.C.M.S. Big Iron World Tour: Back to the Roots
March 18 – Nashville, TN @ Station Inn
March 19 – Boone, NC @ Appalachian Theatre
March 20 – Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre
March 21 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
March 22 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
March 31 – Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre
April 1 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Gaillard Center
April 2 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
April 3 – Savannah, GA @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
April 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
April 24–25 – Wilkesboro, NC @ MerleFest
