Though many fans know that the band Old Crow Medicine Show recorded the original version, the real origin of “Wagon Wheel” begins with an unfinished Bob Dylansong called “Rock Me, Mama.”
“It’s on one of my old bootleg records,” Dylan once told journalist Bill Flanagan. “I recorded it with Roger McGuinn and Rita Coolidge and Booker T, at a movie studio in Hollywood. That’s where they got it, it just had a different title.”
Critter Fuqua, a founding member of the Old Crow Medicine Show, discovered the recording during a trip to London when he was in ninth grade.
Ketch Secor penned the verses, keeping Dylan’s original chorus intact. When Old Crow Medicine Show officially released “Wagon Wheel" in 2004, Dylan was given co-writing credit, and royalties were split evenly.
This wasn’t the first time Rucker pulled inspiration from Dylan. Back in 1995, Hootie and the Blowfish’s hit single “Only Wanna Be With You” famously used several lines directly from Dylan’s 1974 song “Idiot Wind.” The track repeats about five lines word-for-word and even includes a lyric that says, “Ain’t Bobby so cool . . . Yeah, I’m tangled up in blue.”
It’s clear that Dylan’s influence has followed Rucker throughout his career — first as a source of inspiration, and later as a songwriting partner, even if indirectly.
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