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Original
Red Clay Ramblers individual projects
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Bill
& Libby Hicks South
of Nowhere
Copper Creek CCCD-0193
(2001) Bill & Libby Hicks range from old-time tunes to Bill's original
songs, blues to folk
Buy
CD: from Bill | Copper
Creek | Amazon
Dog Passed Ryestraw, Evenin'
Breeze, Big Road Blues, Sugar Hill/Sally Ann, Reelin' Down, Anasazi Premonition,
It Hurts Me Too, Turn Out the Lights, Ducks on the Mill Pond, The
Island Rockers, Tear Stained Eye, Beautiful, John Henry, Uncle Charlie's
Revenge
Bill
& Libby's homepage
FREE
MP3 of "Turn Out the Lights"
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Mike
Craver
Shining
Down
Sapsucker 2324 (2002)
Mike Craver's third solo - a programme of comic novelties and pensive ballades
sung and played upon the pianoforte
Buy
CD: Mike's
Store | CD Baby
Diamond
Lil, Kalamazoo, Dear Mr. Gershwin, That Wicky Wacky Hula Hula Honka Wonka
Honolulu Hawaiian Honey of Mine, Shining Down, Cimarron Cyclone, Butterfield
Stage, When I Was a Little Wee Babe, Argonne Wood, Edwin, Rhode Island
is Famous For You, Everyone's Gone to the Moon, I'm Yellow,
Watson Come Here I Want You
Mike's
homepage
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Jim
Watson
Willie's
Redemption
Barker
1107 (2001) Jim Watson's second solo CD. Also
appearing, Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Chris Frank, Alan Jabbour, Joe Newberry,
Tony Williamson, Gary Williamson, Alice Gerrard, Bill Newton, Bill DeTurk,
Robin & Linda Williams, Kevin Maul
Buy
CD: from Jim
Jordan Is a Hard Road to
Travel/Jawbones, My Blue-Eyed Jane, Sad and Blue, Lazy Farmer Boy, In the
Hills of Tennessee, Leaving Dear Old Ireland, Sinking in the Lonesome Sea,
If the River Was Whiskey, Mississippi Moon, Ragged Bill, Let's Be Lovers
Again, Tell Mother I Will Meet Her, The Light at the River
Jim's
homepage
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Bill
Hicks
The
Perfect Gig
Admit One 1001(2002)
Bill Hicks' first solo record of all original songs and includes live versions
from The Cave, Chapel Hill, NC
Buy
CD: from Bill | CDBaby
| Amazon | Individual
mp3 downloads
The SOB in the Carvel Truck,
Deer Hunter's Blues, Polar Bears on the Moon, By Half, The Evidence, Wet
July, When Change is No Longer Possible, Were They Happy?, Noir Bubble,
Water Lights, Bridges, Play "Rocky Top", Exposure, The Perfect Gig, La
Senorita de la Launderia, Uncle Charlie's Revenge, Last Call |
Mike
Craver
Wagoner's
Lad
Sapsucker 2323 (1999)
Mike Craver's second solo album
Buy
CD: Mike's
Store | CD Baby
A Wagoner's Lad, Black Randy,
Waiting for the Coming Storm, Little Brown Bat, Dewberry Place, Down at
the Crossroads, Freddy, Ollie's Song, Soldier in the Rain, In the Bottom
of the Leadville Mine, Lord Gregory/Big Tree Lodge, Judy, One Day When
Now Is Gone
See
Mike's
Store for cast recordings from his plays, sheet music, and songs
from Lunch at the Piccadilly |
Jim
Watson
Don't
Tell Me, I Don't Know
Barker 1218 (1999) Jim
Watson's first solo record - Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, Chris Frank, others
Buy
CD: from Jim
Them Beautiful Bottles,
Just Keep Waiting 'Til the Good Times Come, I'm Going to the West, Miss
the Mississippi and You, Walls of Time, Leaving Home, Elzic's Farewell,
Faded Coat of Blue, Bill Mason, My Carolina Sunshine Girl, Young Emily,
Mother The Queen of My Heart, Sugar Coated Love, Reunion in Heaven
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FREE
MP3 from
The
Ramblers!
"Texas
Gals"
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WHERE
CAN YOU
BUY
THE MUSIC?
Titles
are linked to sources to purchase the music, if available. Buy directly
from the artist, if possible -- get the best prices and give them the most
support!
Red Clay Ramblers past and present offer many CD-quality
downloads to their fans through CD Baby
(linked to ITunes and others) and eFolkMusic. Look for these links
at each title
Look for out of print RCR
music on
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Mike
Craver
Fishing
For Amour
CD
bonus tracks!!
Flying Fish 330 (1984) Mike
Craver's first solo album
Buy
LP/CDR: Mike's
Store
Fishing for Amour, Woolly
Sheepsong, When You're Lying Awake, Always Leave 'Em Laughin' When you
Say Goodbye; Life's A Funny Proposition After All, Mythic Time, The French
Paratrooper. Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite, Parisian Pierrot,
Spoonyland, Councilhouse in Gabarone, Back In Your Own Backyard, bonus
CD tracks: Old Mister Soul, Secrets in the Sand, The Way You
Look Tonight, Jim |
Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, & Tommy Thompson
Meeting
in the Air
CD
Version is here!
Flying Fish FF-219 (1980)
Songs of the Carter Family
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CD: Mike's
Store | CD
Baby
Anchored in Love,
While the Band Is Playing Dixie, The Stern Old Bachelor, The Winding Stream,
The Schoolhouse on the Hill, The Wayworn Traveler, Meeting in the Air,
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, One Little Word, Dixie Darling, Lula Walls,
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?, Give Me the Roses, When the Roses Bloom
in Dixieland |
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The
Red Clay Ramblers
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(arranged
however we saw fit -- see the Photo Album
for chronological order)
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FREE
MP3 ~~ "Texas
Gals" ~~ FREE MP3
from
The Ramblers! (Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Jim Watson & Joe Newberry)
WETS Radio Johnson City
TN broadcast 2006
Listen!
Download!
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Write
Rounder! Stolen Love
is still out
of print!
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It's working!
Hard
Times and Chuckin'
the Frizz CDs
released on CD
summer 2006!
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Stolen
Love
Flying Fish FF-009 (l975)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
LP
occasionally available: Try
eBay
Yellow Rose of Texas, Big
Sciota, Abe's Retreat, The Golden Vanity, Stolen Love,
I Got What It Takes (But
It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away), Keep the Home Fires Burning, Honey
Babe, Balleydesmond Polka, Wind and Rain, She's Been After Man Ever Since,
Kingdom Coming (In the Year of Jubilo), Staten Island Hornpipe, Parting
Hand, Forked Deer |
Chuckin'
the Frizz (Live at the Cat's Cradle)
Flying Fish FF 089 (1979)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Buy
CD Mike's
Store | Rounder
Fourth of July at a Country
Fair, Thoroughly African Man, Cabin Home, Hot Buttered Rum, Three Bells
Road, Baby Grand, Play "Rocky Top", Santa Anna's March/Fine Times at Our
House/Donegal Reel, Aragon Mill, Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo, Tilly Take Your Time,
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider
Frizz
EXTRAS page
with
some fine honors and reviews
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Hard
Times
Flying Fish FF-246 (1981)
This is Bill's last recording with RCR. He's on 4 songs*;
Clay Buckner fiddles on the others with Jack Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike
Craver, Tommy Thompson
Buy
CD Mike's
Store | Rounder
Chesapeake Bay*,
Wind and Rain, Fiddler A Dram/Murphy's Hornpipe, Matinee Idol, The Face
in the Mirror*, Hard Times*,
Chicken, Trip to Sligo/Priest and His Boots/Three Little Drummers, I Crept
Into the Crypt, When the Goldenrod is Blooming Once Again*,
Three Guys, The Gang's Gone Home, Long Time Traveling |
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Two Red Clay
Ramblers recordings on one CD!
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Red
Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin' Al McCanless
Folkways 31039 (1974)
The very first Red Clay Ramblers LP!
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
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CD! eFolkMusic
Boogerboo, My Only Sweetheart,
Kissing is a Crime, Tell it to Me, Ducks on the Pond, Wagon Yard, Durang's
Hornpipe, Girl Behind the Bar, Birdie, Miller's Reel/Wake Up Susan, Tennessee
Coon, Call to a Foreign Field, Give the Fiddler a Dram, I Got the Whiskey,
Bolger's Hornpipe, House of David Blues, Traveling That Highway Home |
Merchants
Lunch
Flying Fish FF-055 (1977)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Buy
CD! Mike's
Store
Merchants Lunch, A Beefalo
Special, Woman Down in Memphis, Molly Put the Kettle On, Milwaukee Blues,
Melancholy,
Rabbit in the Pea Patch,
I've Got Plans
Kildare's Fancy/Ships Are
Sailing/High Yellow (not on CD version), Daniel Prayed, Forked Deer,
Henhouse Blues, Sweet and Slow
Merchants
Lunch EXTRAS page!
Twisted
Laurel EXTRAS page!
Eugene
Chadbourne reviews!
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Twisted
Laurel
Flying Fish FF-030 (1976)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Buy
CD! Mike's
Store
Blue Jay/The Girl I left
Behind Me, Twisted Laurel, The Hobo's Last Letter, Rockingham Cindy (not
on CD version), Mississippi Delta Blues, The Telephone Girl, Will You
Miss Me, The Ace, The Corrugated Lady, When Bacon Was Scarce/Ryestraw,
I Was Only Teasing You, Fifty Miles of Elbow Room, Flying Cloud Cotillion,
The Beale Street Blues
Note:
"Kildare's Fancy" and "High Yellow" from the LP version of Merchants Lunch
open and close early editions of Roy Underhill's The Woodwright's Shop
televised on PBS stations. |
A
Lie of the Mind
Sugar Hill, RCD 10034
(l986) The music for Sam's Shepard's play
RCR: Jack Herrick, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Clay Buckner
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CD: Half.com
| eBay
Run Sister Run, South of
the Border in the Pines, Honey Babe, I Love You a Thousand Ways, Home is
Where the Heart Is, Seeing It Snow, BlueJay/The Gal I Left Behind Me, Light
Years Away, Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase, Red Rocking Chair, Montana
Underscoring, Killing Floor, Can't Live Without 'em Blues, Folding the
Flag/Hard Times |
It
Ain't Right
Flying Fish FF-334 (l986)
RCR: Jack Herrick, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Clay Buckner
Buy
CD: Mike's
Store | Rounder
It Ain't Right, Valley of
the Dry Bones, Dust and Nothing Else, Jim Cannaan's, Regions of Rain, Merchant's
Lunch, Old Fashioned Girl, Way Long Gone, Life's a Mystery
Willow Garden, Satan's Choir,
Fall on My Knees/The Wandering Boy |
Rambler
Sugar Hill; ASIN: B000000F24
(1992)
RCR: Jack Herrick, Tommy
Thompson, Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Bland Simpson
Buy
CD: eFolkMusic
Cotton-eyed Joe, Cajun Billy,
Black Smoke Train, Saro Jane, Annie Oakley, Queen of Skye, Ninety and Nine,
Mile Long Medley, Darlin' Say/Pony Cart, Hiawatha's Lullaby, What Does
the Deep Sea Say?, Ryan's/Jordan Reel, Barbeque, One Rose/Hot Buttered
Rum, Polkas |
Red
Clay Ramblers "Live"
(1997) recorded live at
the Arts Centre, Chapel Hill, NC, 2/22/97
RCR: Jack Herrick, Clay
Buckner, Chris Frank, Bland Simpson, Ed Butler, Mark Roberts, Barney Pilgrim
Buy
CD: eFolkMusic
Wahoo, Pictures for You,
One Meatball,
The Cat Came Back, Pal-Ya-Chee,
Valley of the Dry Bones, It Ain't Right, Fiddlesticks, Jim Canaan's, Should've
Seen It Coming, Hiawatha's Lullaby, The Saratoga Hornpipe, Follow You All
Over the World, Cotton-Eyed Joe, I Crept Into the Crypt, Fire on the Mountain |
Yonder
(2001) RCR: Jack Herrick,
Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Bland Simpson, Rob Ladd, Don Lewis
Red Clay Ramblers highlight
the songwriting of RCR's Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick, plus a few gems
unearthed by the historical department
Buy
CD: eFolkMusic
Way Down Yonder, The Old
Jawbone/Man of the House, Snuffdipper, Neuse River, Root, Hog, or Die,
Half a Life Without a Dog, Churchill and Roosevelt, Diamond Joe, My Name
is Moses, C-H-I-C-K-E-N, Tarzan, Long Day's Journey Into Night, What's
the Matter With the Mill? |
Fool
Moon: The Music
(2007) The music from
the Tony award winning Broadway show
The
newest one! RCR: Jack Herrick, Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Bland
Simpson, Mark Roberts, Rob Ladd
Buy
CD: eFolkMusic
Fire on the Mountain, Jim
Canaan's, Hat Tricks, Dance to the Left, I Crept Into the Crypt, Big Night
Out, Pal-Yat-Chee, Harlequin & Pantalone, Hiawatha's Lullaby, Tea for
Two, Wahoo, Conductor/Cinema Rag, Valley of the Dry Bones, Fool Moon |
Far
North
Sugar Hill (1989) Music
from Sam Shepard's film Far North
RCR: Jack Herrick, Tommy
Thompson, Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Bland Simpson |
Buy
CD:
eFolkMusic
Far
North, Blue Duluth, Amy's theme (Kitchen), Gourd, Part I, Gourd, Part
II, Amy's Theme (Field), Roll On Buddy/Montage, Gangar, Big Ships, Katie's
Ride, Train Through the Big Woods, Nigh Harps, Run Sister Run, Camptown
Races/Amy's Theme, Amy's Theme (Over the Hill) |
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Theater
Music involving Red Clay Ramblers
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| Lie
of the Mind and Far North,
two Red Clay Ramblers projects with Sam Shepard are listed in the section
above since they do more than "feature" the band.
Fool
Moon: The Music from the Tony-Award Winning Broadway show
also is not a cast album, but rather music of the Red Clay Ramblers.
Scroll back up for song titles
and ordering info.
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Lunch
at the Piccadilly | Oil City Symphony
| Radio Gals
Mike Craver has several
theater projects on CD. Please
visit Mike's site and store
for more info and purchasing.
more
info/order
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Two Red Clay Ramblers tracks
from Sam Shepard's film Silent Tongue:
"Oh
Death" and "The Banks" (movie 1994, tracks released 2004) -- downloads
from eFolkMusic! |
Lone
Star Love cast recording (2006)
and
Kudzu
original
cast recording (2004)
feature the Red Clay Ramblers
more
info/order
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Coastal Cohorts
Bland Simpson
Jim Wann
Don Dixon
New CD Wild
Ponies
more
info | order
King
Mackerel
and
the Blues are Running
original cast recording
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The
Red Clay Ramblers with Other Folks
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Debby
McClatchy with the Red Clay Ramblers
Green Linnet SIF 1003
(1976)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Jack Herrick
Now
available on CD - Silver Jubilee Reissue! Elderly
Instruments
Seeing the Elephant, Brown
and Yellow Earl, I’ve Cried a Mile, Derry Down Fair, Just from Dawson,
Humbug Steamship Companies, Hills of Kentucky, Muirton Durken, You were
only F-bleep-g While I was Making Love, Dainty Davie, Apples in Winter,
Wife’s Lament, Land Beyond the Blue
Ramblers
say “we worked [with Debby] for the first time when Debby joined
the cast of “Diamond Studs” for the last three months of its New York run.
. .The pleasure of working with her on this record has far surpassed our
expectations.”
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Country
Protest
Fundamental Save 7 (1985)
Eugene Chadbourne
RCR: Jim Watson, Mike
Craver, Tommy Thompson, Jack Herrick, Clay Buckner
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Doing
My Job
Flying Fish 221 (1982)
© Si Kahn with backup
by the Red Clay Ramblers
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Wild Rose of the Mountain,
Bleeding Hearts, Gentle With Me Darling, Rock a Little Baby, Black Gold,
Detroit December, Who's Watching the Man, Rock Me, Roll Me, Blue Ridge
Mountain Refugee, Doing My Job, Mississippi Summer, Old King Cotton, Five
Days a Week, Go to Work on Monday, Crossing the Border
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The Ramblers played on "Medley
in C" an 11-minute medley comprising Always on My Mind, Whiter Shade of
Pale, San Francisco Nights, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Imagine, TV Party, Misty,
Dang Me, England Swings, I Started a Joke, To Sir With Love, Some Guys
Have all the Luck, Waltz Across Texas, The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s
Grave. RCR was also a part of Wild Angels, W. Va Spec, and Universal
Soldier. (10 more songs) Some of the medley is also available
on Chadbourne Barber Shop. |
| Jim
writes of the Country Protest Recording: "We met Eugene Chadbourne
when he married a friend of ours. Eugene and Emmy married in NYC
and we played at the reception. So we had known him for a while before
we recorded with him. He used to play semi-regularly in Chapel Hill
at the Cat's Cradle/Rhythm Alley and the Station in Carrboro. We
recorded the long medley (all songs in C) and an instrumental (the West
Va. Spec.) at Steve Gronbeck's TGS studio outside of Chapel Hill.
Mike's knowledge of rock 'n' roll came in handy with the medley.
There was some uncertainty about how the instrumental was going to end,
which is out there for all to hear, but Eugene thought it was great so
that's how it stayed on the album. He is one of the more unusual
performers that one will run across. I'm not sure I understand all
that he does, but there is no doubt that he is really talented and certainly
entertaining." |
CLASSIC
BLUEGRASS vol. 2 (2005), Smithsonian
Folkways CD. Our Ramblers perform "The Girl Behind the Bar"
from their first LP, The Red Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin' Al McCanless
(1974) |
The
booklets accompanying the Smithsonian
Folkways compilations have this to say about RCR: "The Red Clay Ramblers
are the most important group formed during the string-band revival that
occurred in the 1970s around Durham, in central North Carolina." |
CLASSIC
OLD-TIME MUSIC (2003),
Smithsonian
Folkways CD. Included are "House of David Blues" by the Red
Clay Ramblers and "Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy)" by Tommy Thompson and
Joe Thompson |