Mississippi Jack route to New Orleans. Jacky begins to market her own patent medicine consisting of an alcoholic tincture of opium (better known as laudanum) and Kentucky bourbon, which she markets during medicine shows. Most patent medicines of the time were made up with similar ingredients and similar lavish claims for their efficacy. Use of these compounds was widespread and unregulated. The crew encounter a secret abolitionist running a slave-selling scam in which the "slave" is sold, and then escapes to be sold again and again. Similar plots were sometimes used to trick runaways into cooperating with a sale which would turn
Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album) Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album) Volunteer is the sixth studio album by folk band Old Crow Medicine Show. It was released in April 2018 under Columbia Nashville. The album is the band's first to feature Joe Andrews who plays on every track and has subsequently become a full band member. The album received a Metacritic score of 85 based on 6 critics, indicating universal acclaim. The album debuted at No. 14 on Top Country Albums, No. 1 on Bluegrass Albums, and No. 7 on Americana/Folk Albums, with 7,000 equivalent album units (6,500 in traditional album sales) in its first