Released: July 1, 2014

Songwriter: Bob Dylan Critter Fuqua Ketch Secor

Producer: Ted Hutt

Well the world's greatest wonder from what I can tell
Is how a cowgirl like you could ever look my way
I was blinded by glory with a half-written story
And a song spilling out off of every page

Sweet Amarillo
Tears on my pillow
You never will know
How much I cried
Sweet Amarillo
Like the wind in the willow
Damn this old cowboy
For my foolish pride

So I drifted on down from the Iron Ore Range
Across the wide Missouri where the cool waters flow
When I got to Topeka I looked up your name
But they said you rode off with the last rodeo

Sweet Amarillo
Tears on my pillow
You never will know
How much I cried
Sweet Amarillo
Like the wind in the willows
Damn this old cowboy
For my foolish pride

Well the thunder's a-rumbling and the tumbleweed's tumbling
And the rodeo clowns are painting their face
I'm gunning the throttle for Ilano Estacado
On a wild Appaloosa I'm blowing your way

Down in Old Amarillo there's a light in the window
Where a road weary shadow drifts into the arms
Of a long distance lover then they turn back the covers
And dance the Redova 'til the light of the dawn

Sweet Amarillo
Tears on my pillow
You never will know
How much I cried
Sweet Amarillo
Like the wind in the willows
Damn this old cowboy
For my foolish pride

Sweet Amarillo
Sweet Amarillo

Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show is a string band based in Nashville, TN. They started in 1998 by busking on street corners from New York state through northeast Canada. In 2000, they traveled to Boone, NC, hoping to catch the attention of the legendary Doc Watson, and they did, while playing in front of the same pharmacy he did many years earlier. He invited them band to play at his MerleFest Music Festival, and that launched their career.

The group’s music is considered old-time folk because many of the songs they perform are pre-WW2 blues and folk songs, but done with punk rock energy. Their sound influenced Mumford & Sons and contributed to a revival of banjo-picking string bands that play Americana music.

Their self-titled album contained “Wagon Wheel” which front man Ketch Secor wrote, basing it on a song fragment he heard on a Bob Dylan bootleg. Dylan was so impressed with that, he sent Secor a partial song called “Sweet Amarillo,” which Secor also expanded and appeared on OCMS' Remedy album, which won a Grammy for Best Folk Album of 2015 .

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