On “Doc’s Day” from Old Crow Medicine Show’s latest album, Remedy, the bluegrass, folk, and Americana band pays tribute to Doc Watson, a man partially responsible for its success—not only was the band discovered while busking on the same North Carolina corner as him, it was discovered by Watson himself.

The song is another way OCMS is connecting the dots of its influences. The trend started before it was a band, when a teenage Ketch Secor, the frontman, took an unreleased Bob Dylan tune, “Rock Me Mama,” and transformed it into “Wagon Wheel,” a four-chord yarn about traveling which eventually appeared on the septet’s 2004 debut and which later became a #1 country hit for Darius Rucker. (Fun fact: Dylan once sued Rucker’s former band Hootie and the Blowfish for using his lyrics without permission.)

In paying tribute to the artists it loves, OCMS has helped launch a crop of modern acts with an old-time bent, like Mumford & Sons, the Avett Brothers, and the Lumineers, each of which have arguably found more success than OCMS itself. “I attribute the rise of string bands and similar outfits to a real pride in authenticity,” Secor told Acoustic Magazine, “something that’s the antithesis of the cultural phenomenon of the 21st century.”

Not that OCMS needs to worry about its fan base drying up. The group, performing at the 2,800-capacity Paramount tonight, was asked to join the Grand Ole Opry last year, and Remedy is its highest-charting album yet, cracking the Billboard Top 20. Secor, too, thinks the music he had a hand in reviving isn’t going away anytime soon. “Fiddles and banjos won’t be denied,” he told The New Yorker. “I believe they’ll outlast most other American institutions.” Old Crow Medicine Show The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 682-1414. stgpresents.org/paramount. $23.75–$38.75. 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 26.

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