Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All

What this video is

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…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark intersection of the New Americana string band revival and documentary music video tradition. The video contributed to legitimizing socially conscious roots music within mainstream country video channels (CMT), helping establish that raw, community-embedded visual storytelling…

The director

Danny Clinch (born April 7, 1964, Toms River, NJ) is an American photographer and film director. He trained at the New England School of Photography and began his career as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz. In 2003 he founded Three on the Tree Productions…