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"Wagon Wheel" is composed of two different parts. The melody for the song and the lyrics to the chorus come from a demo titled "Rock Me, Mama" that was originally written and recorded by Bob Dylan during the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid sessions in February 1973.
Both "Rock Me, Mama" and "Sweet Amarillo" were eventually completed and recorded by the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, who credited Bob Dylan as co-writer. "Wagon Wheel" was released in 2004 (and subsequently covered by many other artists, including Darius Rucker) and "Sweet Amarillo" was released in 2014. [10]
B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" is based on the 1951 song "Rockin' and Rollin'" by Lil' Son Jackson. [1] King's lyrics are nearly identical to Jackson's, although instrumentally the songs are different: "Rockin' and Rollin'" is a solo piece, with Jackson's vocal and guitar accompaniment, whereas "Rock Me Baby" is an ensemble piece.
Fuqua first brought home a Bob Dylan bootleg from a family trip to London containing a rough outtake called "Rock Me, Mama", [n 3] passing it to Secor. [i 3] Not "so much a song as a sketch," Secor would later say, "crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out ...
@RobertvanderVelden: Jones recorded a song in 1939 titled "Roll Me Mama" that includes the lines "Now roll me over, just like I'm a wagon wheel" and "just like I ain't got no bone". He re-recorded it in 1963 as "Roll Me Over", with some of the lyrics. When tracing the origins, it's best to use the earliest.
Secor is known for co-writing Old Crow Medicine Show's biggest hit and signature song, "Wagon Wheel", which started as a short snippet recorded by Bob Dylan in 1973 called "Rock Me, Mama" — extended by Secor to include new verses about feeling homesick for the south and hitchhiking his way home. [4]
Songs include obscure traditional tunes and original compositions by group members. The album features their signature tune, "Wagon Wheel", written by frontman Ketch Secor using a Bob Dylan chorus. The album was produced by David Rawlings. Gillian Welch plays drums on two tracks.
The song's success made Billy Hill one of the more successful songwriters on Tin Pan Alley. [ 1 ] Hill collaborated with many songwriters, including Peter DeRose , Dedette Hill (his wife), Victor Young , William Raskin, Edward Eliscu , and J. Keirn Brennan , producing standards such as "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree", " Have You Ever Been Lonely?