Carter Family Fold August '04- The Original Red Clay Ramblers

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

The Original Red Clay Ramblers 30th Carter Family Memorial Festival Carter Family Fold, Hiltons, Virginia August 6, 2004
	The Original Red Clay Ramblers return to the Carter Family Fold for their second appearance in 2004. The guys warm up before their afternoon set. Jim Watson was inside getting ready for his performance as part of Robin & Linda Williams' Fine Group
	Fans and views of the Fold during the warm-up The day was magical both for the performances and the perfect weather, cool, sunny, not a drop of rain. unheard of for a fest!
Clowning around		The building in the background is the A.P. Carter store where the performances were held before the Fold was built and where Tommy Thompson crashed through the window in the Ramblers' 1976 debut.
	Mike minding the Original Red Ramblers store. The featurned item was the CD version of Meeting in the Air which arrived hot off the presses the week before. Meeting in the Air songs of the Carter Family sung and played by Jim Watson, Tommy Thompson & Mike Craver of The Original Red Clay Ramblers [ more info \| order ]
click pics for larger views; hit back to return	----------> Robin & Linda Williams and their Fine Group (Jimmy Gaudreaux and Jim Watson) in their afternoon set at the Carter Family Festival
Set 1 (afternoon) Rockingham Cindy Telephone Girl Winding Stream Stolen Love Sugar Hill The Ace Wagon Yard The Band was Playing Dixie Leather Britches Merchants Lunch
		Set 2 (closing the show) Yellow Rose of Texas Aragon Mill Play Rocky Top Are You Tired of Me My Darling Sally Ann Daniel Prayed I Know Whose Tears Hobo's Last Letter You Have Been a Friend to Me Soldier's Joy Beale Street Blues Rabbit in the Pea Patch Susananna Gal Merchants Lunch (Reprise)
Set 2 Highlights Beyond the extraordinary music the Original Red Clay Ramblers always provide, the evening set had several good stories.
Story #1 started in the afternoon. A three-generation family of fans from Toronto, Canada, stopped by the Original Red Clay Ramblers CD table as soon as it was set up. "Who sings 'Are You Tired of Me My Darling'?" Mike Craver, they were told. During the afternoon set, they were overheard spreading the news to each other, "It's the one in the white t-shirt." Just before the evening set, about a dozen members of the lovely group appeared back at the table to ask Mike to please sing their favorite song from Meeting in the Air. It wasn't on the set list, but delighting the Toronto fans and all the audience, Mike took the stage all alone to sing "Are You Tired of Me My Darling." Thanks, Mike, "the man behind THAT voice."		Look at the guitars...
Joe Newberry	Story #2 - Our Original Red Clay Ramblers sang Joe Newberry's song "I Know Whose Tears" based on the poem read at Sara Carter's funeral. Here's the poem. The song can be found on Big Medicine's new CD Fever in the South. If I were hanged on the highest hill, I know whose love would follow me still; If I were drowned in the deepest sea, I know whose tears would come down to me; If I were damned in body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole; Mother of mine! Mother of mine! Mother of mine! --Rudyard Kipling
Story #3 is the party that got going in the Original Red Clay Ramblers second set. It was late, headed toward midnight, and the folks still wanted to dance. They left their seats and stayed down on the dance floor, demanding fiddle tunes and encore after encore. We lost track. Make sure you're at the next one and see for yourself.		John McCutcheon joins the Original Red Clay Ramblers in one of the many encores.