For those that don’t know me, I’m a bit of a music connoisseur. I don’t listen to much, if anything, mainstream and often find myself listening to music on Gardner-Webb’s 88.3 and Isothermal Community College’s 88.7. Sometimes I end up finding something I down right love, today I think I’ve found one of those.

In reality I am a little late to the ball game here, but I’ve been listening to Old Crow Medicine Show’s 2008 release “Tennessee Pusher” good and hard the last few days (this after having it on my computer for a few months). It’s easily slower then the rest of the OCMS records I have, but this may be my favorite record of the bunch.

The stand out track, at least in my opinion, is the next to last song on the record, “Lift Him Up.” I’ve always been partial to songs such as this one, songs that are sorta depressing but make you feel good inside at the same time (I don’t really know how else to put it). It’s songs like this that help me through rough days in my life when I’m angry, frustrated and otherwise out of the ordinary. I think it’s a great song that compliments a record that seems, at least in a way, centered around Meth and it’s evils. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m just a little right, but either way, this is a good record. No doubt about that.

“Lift Him Up” by Old Crow Medicine Show
When a man has got the blues and feels discouraged
And has nothing else but trouble all his life
But he’s just an honest man like any other
Living in a world that’s tearing at his mind
If he’s sick and tired of life and takes to drinking
Do not pass him by, don’t greet him with a frown
Do not fail to lend your hand and try to help him
Always lift him up and never knock him down

If he stay’s out late at night because he’s troubled
Or because his home is not what it should be
Have a smile for him wherever you might meet him
It will help him find the right way, don’t you see
If he gambles when he’s in the town or city
Tell him what he ‘ought to do to win the round
Do not fail to lend your hand and show him pitty
Always lift him up and never knock him down

If he has no friends and everything’s against him
If he’s failed in everything that he has tried
Try to lift this load and help him bare his burden
Let him know that you are walking by his side
If he feel’s that all is lost and he has fallen
Help to place this poor man’s feet on solid ground
And when this world has turned it’s back against him
Always lift him up and never knock him down

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