Old Crow Medicine Show Announces Return Of Founding Member Critter Fuqua

Old Crow Medicine Show confirmed the return of founding member Christopher “Critter” Fuqua. Fuqua will rejoin the band after a four year hiatus on their upcoming Jubilee Tour around their 2023 album of the same name, which has newly announced dates.

Fuqua co-founded OCMS with Ketch Secor, going on to appear on seven studio albums including the Grammy-winning 2014 LP, Remedy. Fuqua wrote and sings lead on Old Crow favorites including “Take ‘Em Away” and “Big Time In the Jungle.”

“It stirs me to my very soul to share the good news that my oldest and dearest friend is coming back to join Old Crow onstage,” Secor said on the return of Fuqua. “We started this band together as teenagers out of a shared love for traditional music, songwriting, rock ‘n’ roll, and the road. All these years later and we’re still harmonizing, what a joy.”

“My relationship with the band is a bit like a Saturn 5 rocket,” Fuqua stated. “For whatever reason, I need to leave sometimes. I achieve an escape vector from the gravitational pull of Old Crow, then I’m off into space, orbiting, floating in zero gravity in my capsule. But I always seem to come around again, shooting through the atmosphere, my pod landing in the ocean. The boys picked me up again. I’m so glad they did. I really missed them.”

Watch the reunited lineup perform for Paste at during Merlefest 2024 below:

Old Crow Medicine show added new dates to the Jubilee Tour in late summer and fall. Check out their itinerary with ticket info below.