The Nashville quintet Old Crow Medicine Show delivered a traveling hoedown -- equal parts bluegrass, jug band and jam band -- at The Deport on Tuesday.

The 28-song set list featured songs drawn from the group's three major releases -- "Old Crow Medicine Show," "Big Iron World" and the new "Tennessee Pusher" -- as well as an assortment of traditional and cover songs.

The first half showcased the multitude of styles the band can deliver with five players, four of whom sang lead vocals, and a range of instruments including fiddle, steel guitar and guitjo (a guitar-banjo hybrid).

"Raise a Ruckus" featured soaring three-part harmonies. "Down Home Girl," made famous by the Rolling Stones circa 1965, featured Ketch Secor nicking harmonica licks from the Beatles' "I Should Have Known Better" and tasty slide guitar from Gill Landry. After the new "Methamphetamine," guitarist Willie Watson sang the Hank Williams-style weeper "Next Go Round" ("I won't let you down/On my next go round").

Other songs, such as "Caroline," from the new album, featured frenetic banjo picking, while the traditional "Fire on the Mountain" delivered an old-fashioned hootenanny with everything but a washboard solo.

The second set raised the energy while emphasizing older songs. Opening with 2004's blistering "Hard to Love," next came "Alabama High-Test," which mines familiar country music material, updated for the 21st century. Ketch Secor sang, "Huff paint, cocaine, playing chicken with a train/Smack dab, meth lab, mellow out, rehab." Classic territory, sure, except ol' Hank Williams never heard of the word "rehab."

The show peaked with O.C.M.S.'s best-known song, "Wagon Wheel," a rollicking hillbilly version of "Cocaine Blues" anchored by Morgan Jahnig's slapping upright bass, and "Mary's Kitchen," which featured Secor on two harmonicas that he swapped according to the song's chord changes.

The encore included another cover, "Soul Rebel," originally by Bob Marley, remade for a country audience with glorious harmonies from Secor and Watson and a scorching fiddle break.

The night's complaints arose from the long wait for tickets outside the venue and the packed crowds seeking refreshment. My companion declared it was "a five-song wait just to get to the bar!," but Old Crow Medicine Show delivered the right tonic for those minor ills.