Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All

2006

Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All (2006) Director: Danny Clinch Era: Mid-2000s Americana Revival (2006) - Post-Katrina documentary realism era; roots music artists leveraging location-based visual storytelling amid heightened national consciousness around New Orleans and Southern identity High curatorial value as a documented intersection of Americana roots revival, post-Katrina social documentary, and the career of a Grammy-nominated director. The video's confirmed CMT nomination, its location-specific production, and its community-centered approach make it a primary source artifact for both music video history and post-disaster cultural documentation. Tier 1 priority for preservation. Context: Released August 29, 2006, exactly one year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the video's New Orleans Mid-City location shoot carries acute memorial and documentary weight. The song, written by Ketch Secor and David Rawlings, carries themes of socially conscious historical witness, making Clinch's decision to ground it in Katrina-survivor testimony a deliberate act of cultural activism. Old Crow Medicine Show occupied a pivotal role in the mid-2000s Americana revival, bridging pre-war string band tradition with punk energy and contemporary social awareness. The video thus operates as both a roots music artifact and a document of post-disaster Southern resilience. Director notes: Confirmed directed by Danny Clinch per Wikipedia and multiple secondary sources. The video was shot on location in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, featuring local residents with personal stories of surviving Hurricane Katrina. The production approach reflects Clinch's signature documentary-realist style, embedding community subjects into the performance narrative, applied here to a song with explicit socially conscious themes. The video was a first-round finalist in both CMT Award categories in which it was nominated, and was also nominated in the CMT Music Awards' Wide Open Country category.