It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...
By Karen C. Blansfield
Carolina Alumni Review , Winter 1992

The Red Clay Rambers, 1992: (Left to Right) Tommy Thompson, 
Chris Frank, Clay Buckner, Jack Herrick and Bland Simpson.

Tommy Thompson (left) and Bland Simpson sing at an outdoor concert

For the PlayMakers 1982 production of Life on the Mississippi, 
a musical written by Tommy Thompson and Bland Simpson (who joined the 
band in 1986), the Ramblers pose on stage with Chris Frank, who at the time
was a member of the cast but not yet a member of the band.
Posing left to right are Mike Craver, Clay Buckner, Jim Watson, Frank, 
Jack Herrick and Simpson

The Ramblers perform a cappella at the Festival for the Eno in 1986.

In the Sam Shepard movie Silent Tongue, the Ramblers portray a band
in an 1870's traveling medicine show. Dressed in period costumes, 
(left to right) Tommy, Jack, Clay, Bland and Chris pose for this publicity photo.