Sometimes an old-timey song with lyrics like “rock me mama like a wagon wheel, rock me mama anyway ya feel” is exactly what your day needs. And maybe some beer, followed by a shot of whiskey, followed by some more beer.

Check out the Gillian Welch cameo in the video:

As the story goes, “Wagon Wheel” originated as an outtake from the soundtrack for the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and the song was written (but unfinished) by none other than Bob Dylan. Years later, OCMS’s frontman Ketch Secor made it his own by writing verses around Dylan’s chorus, a song that’s become a staple of the band. See what Secor told American Rhythm Music Magazine after the jump.

Secor said: “I heard a Dylan song that was unfinished back in high school and I finished it. As a serious Bob Dylan fan, I was listening to anything he had put on tape, and this was an outtake of something he had mumbled out on one of those tapes. I sang it all around the country from about 17 to 26, before I ever even thought, ‘Oh, I better look into this.’”

Secor and Dylan now have a co-writing agreement on the song. Um, how cool is that?

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