Who Wrote The Song Wagon Wheel

The chorus and melody for the song come from a demo recorded by bob dylan during the pat garrett and billy the kid sessions in february 1973.

Who wrote the song wagon wheel. A huge success wagon wheel proved to be a bigger success for darius rucker than it did for old crow medicine show. Ketch secor of old crow medicine show added partly autobiographical verses to dylan s unfinished song transforming rock me mama into wagon wheel it was included on old crow medicine show s major label debut o c m s. Darius rucker s 2013 cover became the. Wagon wheel is composed of two different parts.

For instance it was nominated for a cma award and won a grammy award in 2014 in the category of best country solo performance and in terms of the latter rucker holds the distinction of being only the second african american to win a grammy for vocals in a country music song. Old crow medicine show s wagon wheel was a hit decades in the making. In 2004 and became their most popular recording and a bluegrass standard. Long before darius rucker took it to 1 it was just a fragment of a bob dylan song.

Well this year hootie frontman turned unlikely country sensation darius rucker repaid his dept to dylan in a roundabout way when his and lady antebellum s version of wagon wheel a song. If you re a hardcore bob dylan fan the new darius rucker hit wagon wheel might sound a little familiar.