The Original Red Clay Ramblers Recordings
Ramblers Individual projects
Red Clay Ramblers recordings
Theater Recordings
With other folks

Their business card--artist Kerry Blech--Circa 1974
Jim Watson, Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, and Tommy Thompson
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Original Red Clay Ramblers individual projects
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"
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
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
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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"Texas Gals"
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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
Buy 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
The Red Clay Ramblers
(arranged however we saw fit -- see the Photo Album for chronological order)
FREE MP3 ~~ "Texas Gals" ~~ FREE MP3
from The Ramblers! (Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Jim Watson & Joe Newberry)
WETS Radio Johnson City TN broadcast 2006
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Write Rounder! Stolen Love
is still out of print!
It's working! Hard Times and Chuckin' the Frizz CDs
released on CD summer 2006!
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
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

 
Two Red Clay Ramblers recordings on one CD!
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
Buy 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!
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 
Buy 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)
Theater Music involving Red Clay Ramblers
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.

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and ordering info.


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


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
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 
The Red Clay Ramblers with Other Folks
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 saywe 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.


Country Protest
Fundamental Save 7 (1985)
Eugene Chadbourne
RCR: Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Jack Herrick, Clay Buckner

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


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

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