NOW - The Original Red Clay Ramblers

The Original Red Clay Ramblers - Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, Jim Watson

old time music, new and vintage, with old Rambler favorites

Recent Concert Pictures

O'Blurs - Festival for the Eno - July 4, 2001
their first reunion

The Originals in concert!
Wouldn't you like to see a show?
Click the pics or links in the middle for concert pages. The shows are listed most recent first.

...And some pics for fun

VIDEOS! They're amateur but they're fun!	Our video page Oak Grove Folk Music Festival Verona VA August 9-10, 2008
	The Cave Chapel Hill NC June 21, 2008 Mountainhome Music Blowing Rock NC May 25, 2008
	Carter Family Fold Hiltons VA May 24, 2008 Down Home Johnson City TN May 23, 2008
	Cook Shack Union Grove NC May 22, 2008 ArtsCenter WCOM Benefit Carrboro NC January 4, 2008
	The Cave Chapel Hill NC November 24, 2007 Southern Village Chapel Hill NC Aug. 12, 2007
	Carter Family Fold August 11, 2007 Festival for the Eno July 7, 2007
	Carolina Meadows and the Forest at Duke June 17, 2007 ArtsCenter Carrboro NC June 16, 2007
	Cook Shack Union Grove May 24, 2007 Southern Village Chapel Hill NC Aug. 20, 2006
	Down Home Johnson City TN July 21, 2006 Carter Fold Hiltons, VA July 22, 2006
	Cook Shack Union Grove NC July 20, 2006 The Cave Chapel Hill NC Nov 25, 2005
	Omagh, Northern Ireland Sep. 2-4, 2005 shows scenes
	August 2005 Tour Down Home Carter Family Fold Six String Cook Shack Southern Village
	Mike, Jim & Joe at the Eno 2005 Q Shack June 2005
	Carter Family Festival August 2004 Six String June 2004
	Jan. 21-24, 2004 Tour! Six String Cafe Cook Shack Down Home Carter Family Fold
	O'Blurs Jim, Mike, and Bill plus Joe Newberry at the Carter Family Fold, Hiltons, Va. June 20, 2003 (more pics)
	Red Clay Ramblers Reunion NC Museum of Art June 14, 2003 (more pics)
	O'Blurs Jim, Mike & Bill at the Down Home, Johnson City, TN January 17, 2003 August 17, 2002
	Jim Watson Willie's Redemption CD Release Celebration March 30, 2002 Mike & Bill Many special guests (more pics)
	Festival for the Eno July 4, 2001 O'Blurs reunion! Bill & Libby Robin & Linda & Jim (more pics)

	<------Bull City Cosmic Hoedown - March 15, 2001 CD release Party (more pics) The Cave----> November 14, 2001 Bill's solo show (more pics)
	Bull City Cosmic Hoedown March 16, 2000 Jim and Mike (more pics)
	NC Museum of Art July 17, 1999 <=Mike's concert Jim and Bill => (more pics)

Ramblers enjoy the deck of a mountain home before their Mountainhome concert 5/25/08

Jim hoists a can of Spam at the Down Home to salute the Fly By Night Club in Spenard, Alaska

The Down Home in Johnson City TN displays this pic of the Red Clay Ramblers from the 70s. We now have a good scan linked to the pic!

After the show!

Judge Bill Hicks listens to the Southern String Band at Fiddler's Grove, Union Grove 2005. (photo by Karen Chase)

"60 isn't nearly as old as it used to be"
Bill's birthday party Jan. 2003

Mike, Bill, and Libby in the studio of
WETS radio, Johnson City, TN Aug. 2002
(photo by Dana German)

Jim's Photo Album

Jim's Xmas party 2000

Benefit for Tommy, Easter Weekend, 1997
(click on a pic for a larger version or to see more of Jim's Photo Album)

June, 1998, at Carrboro's first Fete de la Musique

Bill Hicks
Mike Craver
Tommy Thompson

(photo by Susan Marshall)

The clear high point of the day occurred on the Solstice Stage at about 6 p.m., when original Red Clay Ramblers Bill Hicks and Mike Craver joined their old band-mate Tommy Thompson and his daughter, Jesse Eustice, for an emotional reunion." -The Chapel Hill News
One more of Mike and Bill in action. Don't you wish you could hear the music?

**What are the Original Blurs up to these days?**
We've made each of them their own sections! And the latest performance news is always on our **FLASH** calendar page. Other happenings are on our **NEWS** page.
Bill Hicks	Mike Craver	Jim Watson	Tommy Thompson	Jack Herrick

Original Red Clay Ramblers
Photo Album from the '70s and '80s

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