miamizsun wrote: 
Wonky, like, sucks.

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 Red_Dragon wrote: 
I've never heard it before either. I only play music I want to hear and that one doesn't come up in any rotation the stations I listen to play. Now after listening to about 20 seconds or so I too am a member of the No Wagon Wheel club. 

 Proclivities wrote:

I’ve sat around many a campfire with musicians hanging out. Inevitably, someone will kick into “Wagon Wheel.” Everybody knows how to sing it, or learns quickly, plus it is easy an easy song for harmonizing. I don’t recall hearing it on the radio though. Let’s see if RP will put it on the rotation

 ptooey wrote:


Oh it's definitely possible. One of the few things I have in common with RD.

 kurtster wrote:
As you could imagine, it's a popular song in Appalachia and particularly around Raleigh.  I don't think I'd heard it until I moved to NC.  I remember playing an open mic night years ago at a local bar and while people were signing in the guy running it was explaining about how many songs and how long people could play and then added: "Oh, and no fucking 'Wagon Wheel'".  First time I had heard that phrase.

I'm another who has never heard this before that I can recall.  

Yeah, it's ok.  If I never heard it again that would be ok, too.

25 times a week and there would be a problem.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Yeah, but weren't nowhere to seen until then... yet there was fiddlin'.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1:18?

So now you know it and can maybe enjoy it without the auugggh reflex kicking in.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Nope. Also; where's the fiddle player?

 ptooey wrote:

I mean the bona fides of that band are hard to beat. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in that video. I don't believe I've ever called it up before so that was interesting. I know she's played with them tho.

 Red_Dragon wrote:


Have you left the house? Because I'd say 1 out of 3 cover bands I've seen in the last 15 years or so have done it.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


I think that might be part of the annoyance - it's such a simple and common chord progression.  G D Em C G D C

 ptooey wrote:

Haven't listened to broadcast music radio in years.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

You are not, I assure you. It's not a bad song, I'm sure the band would be fine too. I think ptooey might have mentioned it and I was in the same place as you... until I looked it up and I thought "oh, sure, that song" and now I do hear it everywhere. It's like that Mariah Carey Christmas song; I thought that was a cover of something from the 50s... it's just so pop-perfect it feels like I've known it forever... and maybe we did: Bob Dylan wrote the chorus in the 70s. Did it get used somewhere else in another song? I dunno.

 Red_Dragon wrote:


I frankly do not understand how that could even be possible.

 ptooey wrote:

I think I voiced a complaint here but maybe FB just in the last few weeks that a guy was doing a solo set and literally every song started off sounding like Wagon Wheel but with a different chorus. I kept thinking "ah, this is it" and nope.

 ptooey wrote:

I suppose I should consider myself lucky to be completely unaware of this song.

 Proclivities wrote:


I feel this should just be adopted nationally.


Edit:  I vaguely remembered bitching on Facebook about the phenomenon some time ago. I just checked - I voiced my complaint in July of 2011. Yeah, it's been out of control for a long time.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Most bars and music venues in NC (at least this part of the state) have had a "No Wagon Wheel" rule for some time - especially on Open Mic nights.  Apparently the rule is not unique to the Raleigh area.