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. It is a track-for-track tribute to

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's landmark 1966 double album ''

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''.

Production

''50 Years of Blonde on Blonde'' was recorded live at the CMA Theater at the

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, in

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, in May 2016. The concert coincided with a Hall of Fame exhibit exploring Dylan's time in Nashville. In an interview, band members Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua described how they had bonded over Dylan's songs as teenagers, and that the ''50 Years...'' project was a natural extension of that collaboration. While the new recording follows the sequence of Dylan's original track-for-track, Old Crow took considerable liberties with the arrangement of individual tracks, for instance reimagining "Pledging My Time" as a "hillbilly

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," and "Obviously 5 Believers" as "a manic fiddle riot." The recording was released as an album on April 28, 2017. It was the band's first release on their new

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, which had released Dylan's original album in 1966.

Personnel

*Ketch Secor – Vocals, fiddle, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, guitar *"Critter" Fuqua – Guitar, vocals, banjo, accordion, dobro, drums *Kevin Hayes – Guitjo, harmonica & backing vocals on track 1, lead vocals on track 7 *Morgan Jahnig – Upright bass, backing vocals on track 1 *Chance McCoy – Guitar, kazoo, backing vocals, fiddle, dobro, banjo, co-lead vocals on track 12 *Cory Younts – Keyboards, backing vocals, mandolin, drums, marching snare drum, whistle *Joe Andrews - Banjo, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, dobro, marching bass drum *Robert Price - Drums on track 10

Live performances

Old Crow Medicine Show undertook a planned 27-date tour in support of ''50 Years...'' in May and June, 2017. Shows were scheduled in the

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, and the

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Track listing

The track listing mirrors that of the original album. All tracks written by Bob Dylan.

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