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Florida-Georgia Line to Release New Version of "Wagon Wheel"

Already on top of the world with their huge summer tour announcement and their smash hit "God, Your Mama, and Me" with the Backstreet Boys riding high on the charts, Florida-Georgia Line Friday announced the "FGLuxe Edition" of their album Dig Your Roots. The expanded album, due in early June, will include a live cut of "Cruise" featuring Nelly, 2 new songs, and most notably, a reworked version of the modern country standard "Wagon Wheel."

The song, written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show, and popularized on country radio by Darius Rucker, will get a bit of an update this time around.

"We love that song!" said Brian Kelley, "We've always wanted to do a version of it that expressed who we are though." "So we just did it!" laughed partner Tyler Hubbard.

The "rebooted" "Wagon Wheel" will incorporate Florida-Georgia Line's signature amped up country sound with the song's original format and melody. And… probably quite controversially, it will feature all new lyrics, more suited for the younger, more party-minded fans of the duo.

"We rewrote it entirely," said Hubbard. "I mean it's still the same song, but it's different!" "Bro, we don't relate to hitchhiking and playing banjos… but we do relate to having a good time!" explained Kelley.

Much to the chagrin of country purists, the new version will include references to pickup trucks, hot girls, and cold beer, the traditional touchstones of the supposed "bro country" genre. FGL says they know it will ruffle some feathers, but that if you don't have "haters," you're doing something wrong.

When asked what Dylan thought of the new version, Hubbard told us "He just won the Nobel Peace Prize, you know he's cool with it!"

A sampling of the new lyrics follows:

The dirty south, yeah that's where to find
Me chillin' on the Florida-Georgia Line
Down a gravel road in a circle of KC lights
The party don't stop till the morning hours
Baby got a booty and a crown of flowers
And I'm hopin' I get lucky, with my country girl tonight

Rock me baby like a wagon wheel
Drop it down low if that's what you feel
Hey baby rock me
Rock me baby like some single grain
Got me drunk on how you move that thang
Hey baby rock me

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Dig Your Roots: FGLuxe Edition will be released June 9th.


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Farce the Music's Favorite Songs of 2014

You'll find a Spotify playlist containing all of these songs at the bottom of this post.

1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Sweet Amarillo

While not as timeless as its spiritual forebear "Wagon Wheel," it's nearly as catchy and just as likely to get your foot tapping. Here's hoping Dylan and OCMS do a whole album together someday. Ought to be a hit on mainstream radio, but yeah, well...

2. Pallbearer - Ghost I Used to Be

An outlier to be sure, this doom metal tune is an instant classic of the genre. Sweeping, majestic, epic - the usual descriptors for the more slow-paced brother of heavy metal - but in this case, they more than fit.

3. Don Williams - I'll Be Here in the Morning

"I'll Be Here in the Morning" is something so steady and perfect, you could hear it on a Williams' greatest hits collection and never question its inclusion. Don's voice is still as comforting and just damn manly as ever and he performs this Townes Van Zandt beauty to perfection.

4. Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down

"Weird" is the least likely term you'd ever use to describe a song this classic-sounding, but there it is. "Turtles" is the faith-questioning/love-championing anthem nearly everybody could get behind this year. Never mind that it denies the importance of religion (all of them) and the veracity of its teachings; even Conservatives loved this bastard child of Waylon and a particularly vivid acid trip.

5. Adam Faucett - Opossum

"Don't you ask me when you don't wanna know" it warns in the opening line. It's a dark, melodic look back at how better past days contrast with the struggles of the now in the lives of former lovers. Or at least that's what I think it's about; this one's a little hard to decipher, but it sounds damn great.

6. Wade Bowen - West Texas Rain

Co-written with my MVP songwriter of 2014, Travis Meadows, "West Texas Rain" is certainly a highlight of Wade Bowen's career thus far. It brings to mind Restless Heart with its soft tones and strong melodies. Another song that ought to be a big hit - in fact, it probably would have been a no-doubter in the 80s or 90s.

7. Caleb Caudle - Drag

A sad-bastard tune warning a potential love of the likelihood of a disastrous outcome, "Drag" is thoughtful, soulful and gloriously depressing.

8. Old 97's - Nashville

A joyously profane return to what made Old 97s one of my favorite bands during my early forays into alt-country. It's vulgar, self-deprecating and hilariously confident despite the subject matter. The guys haven't sounded happier to be rocking together in years.

9. Nikki Lane - Love's On Fire

This duet with Joshua Headley sways like the trees on a spring Sunday afternoon. It's all harmony and good times and fiddle and organ and a damn fun tune that you'll never get out of your head. Modern country rock at its best.

10. Fire Mountain - Traces

A hard-hitting ballad with a sweeping chorus that wouldn't be out of place soundtracking a somber breakup scene in some teen soap. That's not to say it's generic and schmaltzy… okay, it's a little schmaltzy, but it's so damn well-written and just unfair on an emotional level. I would have straight up wept into my cheap beer if this had come out during my college days.

Next 10 (in no particular order):

Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Boogie Woogie Down the Jericho Road

Tami Neilson – Cry Over You

Run The Jewels – Blockbuster Night Part 1

Lydia Loveless – Wine Lips

Matt Woods – Tiny Anchors

Josh Grider – Pontiac

Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition – Hurtin' Songs

Drive-By Truckers – Grand Canyon

The War On Drugs – Eyes To The Wind

Kelsey Waldon – High in Heels

Other Favorites (in no particular order):

Shooter Jennings – The Door

Cory Branan – All I Got and Gone

Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires – The Kudzu and the Concrete

Karen Jonas – Suicide Sal

Beck – Country Down

Parker Millsap – When I Leave

Jack White – That Black Bat Licorice

Stoney LaRue – Still Runnin’

Willie Nelson – The Wall

Bob Wayne – 20 Miles to Juarez (feat. Elizabeth Cook)

Red Eye Gravy – Take Me Back

Rival Sons – Open My Eyes

Cloud Nothings – I'm Not Part of Me

Mastodon – The Motherload

YG – Who Do You Love?

Robert Ellis - Chemical Plant

Schoolboy Q – Collard Greens

Hard Working Americans – Down to the Well

Rodney Crowell – God I'm Missing You

Cody Johnson – Holes

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – Retreat!

Jimbo Mathus – Medicine
Eric Church - Talladega

First Aid Kit – Stay Gold

David Nail – Brand New Day

Sundy Best – Smoking Gun

Lee Ann Womack – Tomorrow Night In Baltimore

The Hold Steady – The Ambassador

Mat D. and The Profane Saints – Holyoke

Jason Eady – One Two...Many

John Fullbright – Never Cry Again

Centro-matic – Salty Disciple

Matthew Ryan – Then She Threw Me Like a Hand Grenade

Curtis Harding – Keep On Shining

Lake Street Dive – Seventeen

St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Broken Bones & Pocket Change

Miranda Lambert – All That's Left - [feat. The Time Jumpers]

Spoon – Knock Knock Knock
Dierks Bentley - Riser

Rosanne Cash – A Feather's Not A Bird

Jeff Whitehead – Pardon Me

Hiss Golden Messenger – Drum

Cahalen Morrison – I've Won Every Battle, But I've Lost Every War

Sunny Sweeney – Find Me

Whiskey Myers – Colloquy 

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Here's OCMS performing (the Bob Dylan cowrite of sorts - much like "Wagon Wheel") "Sweet Amarillo," from their upcoming album, Remedy.

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10 Second Single Review: Darius Rucker - "Wagon Wheel"

This won't be a popular opinion, but I'm gonna say this Darius Rucker "Wagon Wheel" single is a good thing. It could whet appetites for rootsier music and it'll pay Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor. It's pretty bloodless and slick (what do you expect from a Nashville single?), but overall not a bad cover and Lady A doesn't ruin it as backup singers. Also, he didn't change "toke" to "smoke," which is a surprise, given radio's aversion to Eric Church's pot references.

B+

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