[L to R: PJ George, Cory Younts, Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig, Joe Andrews, Chance McCoy,
Cover photo credit to Ed Rode]
Two-time Grammy-winning string band Old Crow Medicine Show has announced the June 5, 2026, release of their new album, Union Made on Hartland Records via Firebird Music. Produced by longtime bandmember Morgan Jahnig and recorded in their own East Nashville studio, Union Made finds the group “reflecting upon the people, places, and stories of a country on the brink of its 250th birthday.”
The album’s debut single “My Side Of The Mountain“ is a generation-spanning collaboration co-written by bandleader Ketch Secor, Molly Tuttle and Luke Combs, and featuring Bluegrass legends Del McCoury and Ronnie McCoury.
Ketch Secor says on the new single:
Molly Tuttle and I got together with Luke Combs to write this song. Both Luke and I owe a lot to the scenic town of Boone, high in the hills of westernmost North Carolina where the song is set. Another musician with deep roots in the area is Bluegrass legend Del McCoury. ‘My Side of the Mountain’ celebrates the distinct culture and sound of the Appalachian people of WNC, some of our country’s most self-reliant folk. This song is for them.
Union Made is Old Crow Medicine Show’s most collaborative project to date, featuring appearances from nearly a dozen guests including Maggie Rose, Turnpike Troubadours’ Evan Felker, Jesse Welles, John Carter Cash and Ana Cristina Cash.
This wide collaboration is appropriate on “an album about union, one about the rich tapestry of exuberance, sorrow, victory, and failure that forms the American experience.”
Inspired by the band’s nearly 30-year trek from the street corners of Western North Carolina to the nation’s most celebrated stages, Union Made is “a love letter to the America that was, the America that is, and the America that could be.”
Secor says:
This is a fascinating time in our short history as a nation. We wanted to meet that moment by collecting a bunch of songs that speak to the joys and potentials, the rights and the wrongs of where we are today, where we’re going, and what can embolden us to have a more perfect union in the future. There are wonderful, ghostly American sounds that only bands steeped in folk music traditions know how to conjure, and it seems like an important time for those voices to be heard.
Old Crow Medicine Show has also recently announced the first ever vinyl release of their 2006 sophomore album Big Iron World, remastered by producer David Rawlings. The band has been on the road this year performing the album in full for their Back to the Roots Tour, culminating in a main stage performance at Merlefest this weekend.
In addition to multiple appearances across the festival, the band is producing a special late night Grand Ole Opry show on site – conceived, curated and hosted by Ketch Secor.
Next month, they hit the road on a tour across the country with stops in Boston, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Boulder, Louisville and more.
Old Crow Medicine Show 2026 Tour Dates:
April 24–25 – Wilkesboro, NC @ MerleFest
May 14 – Salina, KS @ The Stiefel Theatre
May 15 – Bellvue, CO @ Mishawaka Amphitheatre *
May 16 – Aztec, NM @ Tico Time Bluegrass Festival
May 17 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater *
May 28 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre +
May 29 – Richmond, VA @ Music at Maymont +
May 30 – Columbia, SC @ Songbird Festival – Finlay Park
June 6 – Paris, TN @ Tennessee River Jam
June 19 – Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES @ Azkena Rock Festival
June 20 – Grolloo, NL @ Holland International Blues Festival
June 25 – Prior Lake, MN @ The Great Midwest Ribfest
June 26 – Bloomington, IL @ Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts =
June 27 – Cedar Rapids, IA @ Paramount Theatre =
June 28 – Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace Theatre =
July 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Twilight Concert Series – The Gallivan Center #
July 14 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Pikes Peak Center %
July 15 – Casper, WY @ Ford Wyoming Center %
July 17 – Whitefish, MT @ Under The Big Sky
July 18 – Emigrant, MT @ The Old Saloon
July 21 – Ketchum, ID @ Argyros Performing Arts Center
July 23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre ^
July 24 – Albuquerque, NM @ First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater ^
July 25 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^
July 26 – Omaha, NE @ Steelhouse Omaha
July 31 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena ^^
August 2 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park ^^
August 5 – Erie, PA @ Rebich Investments Amphitheater **
August 6 – Lynchburg, VA @ Academy Center of the Arts **
August 8 – Myrtle Beach, SC @ Alabama Theatre **
August 13 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena ^^
August 14 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena ^^
August 15 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post ^^
August 28 – West Fargo, ND @ Buckaroo Festival – Lights Ampitheater
September 15 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts $
September 17 – Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre $
September 18 – Shelburne, VT @ Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green – Shelburne Museum $
September 19 – Hommondsport, NY @ Concerts at Point of the Bluff $
September 20 – Morgantown, WV @ The Metropolitan Theatre $
October 9 – Eureka Springs, AR @ Hillberry Music Festival
November 11–15 – Miami, FL @ Moon River At Sea
* with Madeline Hawthorne
+ with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
= with Trey Hensley
# with Big Richard, Michelle Moonshine
% with Big Richard
^ with Darius Rucker, Austin Williams
^^ with Zac Brown Band
** with Presley Haile
$ with Palmyra
