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Sony Music Nashville Signs Global Deal with Ketch Secor

Sony Music Publishing Nashville today announced the signing of GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter and Old Crow Medicine Show front man Ketch Secor to a global publishing administration deal.

Sony Music Nashville Signs Global Deal with Ketch Secor

The news coincides with the 20th anniversary milestone of Old Crow Medicine Showโ€™s legendary hit song โ€œWagon Wheel,โ€ as well as the groupโ€™s 2024 Jubilee Tour in celebration of their 25-year anniversary and GRAMMY-nominated album.

As one of todayโ€™s most prolific songwriters, Ketch Secor is a founding member of the two-time GRAMMY award-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show and is widely regarded for his influence across Country and Americana music.

He has achieved acclaim for his work on timeless songs including the iconic #1 hit โ€œWagon Wheel,โ€ which was co-written by Secor.

Since its original release by Old Crow Medicine Show in 2004, the song has been covered by numerous artists, most notably Darius Rucker, and has become of the top five best-selling Country songs of all time with 8x RIAA Multi-Platinum certifications and over 16 million US sales. 

Additionally, Secor co-wrote a majority of tracks on Molly Tuttlesโ€™ latest two albums City of Gold (2023) and Crooked Tree (2022), and co-wrote the musical Hooten Holler, which premiered at the Barter Theatreโ€™s 2022 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights.

Recently, Old Crow Medicine Show announced additional dates to the groupโ€™s 2024 Jubilee Tour. The groupโ€™s nationwide tour spans throughout the year and is set to conclude in December with their annual New Yearโ€™s Eve shows at Nashvilleโ€™s Ryman Auditorium.

Ketch Secor said,
 โ€œIโ€™m mighty proud to be joining Rusty Gaston and the hardworking, fun-loving Sony Music Publishing family.

Since its earliest days on Music Row as historic Acuff-Rose, Sony Music Publishing has become the steward of Countryโ€™s most iconic catalog. What an honor to bring my collection of songs past, present, and future to these esteemed ranks.โ€

Sony Music Publishing Nashville CEO Rusty Gaston said, โ€œKetch Secor is more than a โ€˜fiddler in an old-time string bandโ€™, heโ€™s a brilliant storyteller.  He writes songs that tell the tales of the rural American spirit.  A one-of-a-kind talent and a one-of-a-kind human, we couldnโ€™t be prouder to welcome Ketch to the SMP Nashville family.โ€

Old Crow Medicine Showโ€™s acclaimed eighth studio album Jubilee was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2024 GRAMMY awards and has garnered critical acclaim across outlets including Consequence, SPIN, BrooklynVegan, American Songwriter and more.

Featuring hit singles including โ€œMiles Away,โ€ which spent nine weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana Airplay chart, Jubilee served as a companion piece to the groupโ€™s 2022 album Paint This Town, which reached #1 on the Americana Albums chart and on Billboardโ€™s Bluegrass Albums chart.

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