Photo Album 4 - The Original Red Clay Ramblers

The Original

Photo Album
page 4 - to 1981
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Garrison Keillor and the Red Clay Ramblers
on the Prairie Home Companion
(1979) from Nic Siler's collection (*Click the pic for several more.*)

Thanks to Bill Hicks for these pics of Red Clay Ramblers concert posters currently papering his ceiling.

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1977 Red Clay Ramblers show in Romania and see the review of the show!

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Red Clay Ramblers with Emmylou Harris in 1980.

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Chapel Hill, l979, photo by Rick Doble - outtake of the Chuckin' the Frizz session.

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Chapel Hill, l980, photo by Chris Baker - one of the photos taken for the Meeting in the Air album.

Benefit concert for The Ark Coffeehouse
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1980
The Ark was one of the first folk venues in the country.
John Hammond on the ladder behind Tommy Thompson, Mike Craver, & Jim Watson in the left corner. Dave Bromberg's wife under Watson's elbow. Front: Leon Redbone, Linda Siglin, & Hedy West. Jay Ungar behind Linda then David Bromberg, Jim Ringer, Mary McCastin & unknown guy on the end. That's Dave Siglin next to Bill Hicks on the other ladder with Onya Siglin, Jack Herrick behind Jim Ringer.
(click on the pic for a larger view)
Review of the Red Clay Ramblers first of many Ark shows.

The folk magazine, Come For to Sing, interviewed Tommy Thompson, Jim Watson, and Bill Hicks at the 1980 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Read the interview, too.
(photos by Emily Friedman)

Beards come, 'stashes go. Both pics of the Red Clay Ramblers were taken at the Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS (photos by Maurice W. Eagle) (click on the pics for larger views)	1978 1979
Ramblers in Chicago less Bill (pic by Nancy Buik)	1980
There's a big difference now-- that's not Bill Hicks behind the coffee cup in this shot of the Blurs. It's Clay Buckner, who joined the band when Bill left the roadlife. (photo by John Rosenthal)	1981

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