part II of #MississippiOnTheMap w #ketchsecor of @Old Crow Medicine Show now available wherever you get your podcasts.

You know, I wrote a song that got really popular called Rock Me Mama Like a Wagon Wheel. And, you know, the origin story of that song, which is 100 years in the making, I'll tell it to you briefly. So about 1994, I'm 17 years old and I hear this Bob Dylan song in which he mumbles out a chorus that I kind of, semi-intelligible, and then it's like, oh, that sounds like rock me mama like a wagon wheel, rock me mama like a southbound train, that's beautiful, I'm gonna write the rest of that. So I write it and I finish it. So I go to publish it and Bob somehow, miraculously says, okay, we'll call it Dylan Seacore 50-50. But then an email comes from the manager, Jeff, saying, now Bob says he agrees to publish it with you, but he wants you to know he didn't write that song. In fact, he learned it from Arthur Crudup. So I go to check out, where's this guy, Arthur Big Boy Crudup from? Well, he's the fellow that writes the song, goes, well, that's all right, mama, that's all right for you, he wrote that one. It's for Elvis, you know? Well, in his liner notes, he's like, yeah, this guy, Arthur Crudup, recorded rock me mama, but he didn't write it, no. He learned it from a cat named Big Bill Brunzi in Chicago in the 1920s. Well, where's Big Bill Brunzi from? Chicago, but where did he come from? Where'd they all come from? Mississippi, he's part of the great migration. Yes, you know, so back in the late teens, he's got this song, rock me mama something or other, and by the time it gets to me, I'm able to finish the song. It takes a hundred year gestation period. Imagine laying an egg, it'll take a hundred years to crack open like that. That's what makes that song, rock me mama, so special, you know, is that it's got a little Mississippi in it.