How the site was built from its start in March,
1999, up to December, 2000
(back to the current site
log)
December, 2000
31 Mike Craver found
some early Red Clay Ramblers clippings in his mom's
scrapbook. And he sent some photos from The Folk Festival Book
about the Winnipeg Folk Festival in the late 70s.
19 Added two guestbooks
for the site: one on the main page for the Original
Red Clay Ramblers site and one on Jesse's Letters
and Tributes to Tommy Thompson
18 Added pictures and
cards to Tributes to Tommy Thompson that he's
had on his walls from his friends and fans. Check out the caricature
of Tommy done by cartoonist and playwrite Doug Marlette that we've added
as the background for the page.
17 Jesse's
letters: Tommy moves into a new stage of his illness
November, 2000
28 Jesse's
letter: My trip to West Virginia: A mute tribute to my heritage
6 Tributes
to Tommy Thompson from his friends and fans. Letters Jesse has received
from folks sharing their special memories of her dad.
5 Jesse's
letter: Hospital update
October, 2000
16 Jesse's
letter: What Dementia Means
September, 2000
15 Jesse's
letter: "Dear Friends, There'll be no sad farewells, there'll be no
tear dimmed eyes.
Where all is joy and peace and love, and the soul of
man never dies." ...an update by Jessie
August, 2000
14 Rearranged the photo
album to put all the new stuff Mike sent in the proper years.
7 Tommy, Jessie
and hubby David, and several of more of us were the delighted guests of
the Red Clay Ramblers at their August 5 concert at the North Carolina Museum
of Art. Jesse's letter tells all about it.
July, 2000
16 We just got
some great new pictures from Jessie's collection. You can see the
'73
Red Clay Ramblers on the Cat's Cradle stage and the Hollow
Rock house where it all started along with some wonderful pics
of Tommy from those years.
1 Jesse's
letter: Visitation
June, 2000
25 Jesse's
letter: "You can't always get what you want.."
24 Sound!
Thanks to Chris Frank and efolkMusic, we now have Real Audio full-length
music previews of Bill Hicks, Mike
Craver, Jim Watson, and the Red
Clay Ramblers on News and the discography
page. Enjoy :-)
22 Jesse's
letter: Tommy's drum
17 Jesse's
letter: Musical Memories
14 Jesse's
letter: Tommy's recent mini stroke
May, 2000
21 Village Voice
and NY Times ads from 1975-1976 for Red Clay Ramblers NYC
concerts
15 New pics for
Bill
and Libby
14 Jesse's
letter: For Mother's Day
7 New
Red Clay Ramblers pictures from Mike's scrapbook,
1974 - 1986!
April, 2000
28 They really were gods
in Johnson City. See the proof at the '77 Pickin' review and
interview, "What The Red Clay Ramblers Play."
8 Jesse
reports from the Alzheimer's Conference organized by Lisa Gwyther of
the Neurological Disorders Clinic and the Family Support Program at Duke
University
5 We'll take
you with pictures and stories to Bill Hicks'
solo show at the Open Eye Cafe on March 30. Try to catch your
own
live gig, tho.
4 See new
pictures -- Red Clay Ramblers van and a 1977 Romanian
concert poster that's hanging on Bill's ceiling
March, 2000
24 Jesse's
letter: tribute to Michelle and Maurice
19 The day after the
concert, Mike Craver and Cece Conway went to see Tommy Thompson.
Mike shares with us in "Visiting Tommy"accompanied
by a note from Cece
18 For a birthday present for
ourselves and all our readers, we proudly add pics and a review from Jim
Watson & Mike Craver's Bull City Cosmic Hoedown Concert held in
Durham on March 16. Wish you'd all been there! At the concert,
Jim brought us a copy of his CD review
from
the Raleigh News & Observer to post. Don't tell us we don't know!
18 Happy birthday to
us, happy birthday to us...We're one year old! As grandma always
said, "Look how you've grown!"
11 Keep an eye on new
music from Bill, Mike, and Jim in mp3 format from efolkMusic. Check
Flash
for the latest and News for more detailed info.
February, 2000
22 New design for Jesse's
letters! We have the letters described in a table of contents
17 Jesse's
letter: Kitchen in the Air
6 Bill Hicks
and wife Libby play cajun/zydeco with Unknown
Tongues. Check out the new section on the band
January, 2000
18 Jessie's
letter: Gratitude and Puppy Love
9 Pics from
Bill's band Unknown Tongues
8 Publicity
bios, pictures, and discography for Fiddlin'
Bill and Libby
7 Tommy wrote
his
memories of the Hollow Rock years up to
the Red Clay Ramblers
6 Part
2 of John McLaughlin's 1978 interview with Tommy Thompson for Folk
Life
December, 1999
20 Jesse's
Letter: "Real Art" - a visit to Bah Humbug
12 Split the home
page into home, site map,
and news
11 Historical t-shirts
pics: Diamond Studs and 1977
European Tour
5 Added new
section on the Hollow Rock String Band
November, 1999
20 Jesse's
letter: Dixie Crystals play for Tommy
3 Jesse's
letter: Tommy goes to see the current Red Clay Ramblers
2 Bill
now has booking info on his page
for himself and Unknown Tongues
October, 1999
25 Added a picture
of Flying Fish's Bruce Kaplan to Blurred Time
1979
10 Come For To Sing
article by Emily Friedman: "The Red Clay Ramblers:
Evolution of a String Band" (1980)
6 new pics
on page 3 of the Photo Album - check out the mag
cover with Garcia!
1 Jesse's
mission when she visits Tommy
September, 1999
17 Excerpts from Raleigh
News & Observer when Tommy was Tar Heel of
the Week
14 Paradise
Inn, In a Birmingham Diner, and The
Sleeper added to Blurred Time
11 Excerpts from the
Old
Time Herald review of Jim's
Don't
Tell Me, I Don't Know
10 Blurred
Time 1980 from Bill
3 Blurred
Time 1979 from Bill
2 Update
from Jesse on Tommy - "Give Me the Roses" - Tarwater
Band
August, 1999
31
Added Tommy's poem "Banjo" to his John Proffit
page
15
Cover article from Bluegrass Unlimited (1984)
- lots of history/biography
13
More outstanding reviews of Mike's Wagoner's
Lad; created this Site Log
12 Added
an excerpt from Perry Young's column about
Tommy and Jesse's Carrboro performances in 1998
11
New Links added
9
Tommy's solo play John Proffit
2
Added Mike and Jim's solo CDs to the discography
1
Totally redesigned the Now section by making individual
sections for each of the Original Red Clay Ramblers for their careers outside
the Blurs, added new pictures and reorganized the whole Photo
Album section
July, 1999
30 Lots of new
pictures
of Tommy and Jesse all through Tommy's section and interviews about their
1998
performances in Carrboro
27 Update from
Jesse on Tommy
25 Added to the
Photo
Album
18 Posted a page
of pictures and reports from Mike's concert at the
NC Museum of Art
14 Information
about Mike's new CD, Wagoner's Lad
June, 1999
20 Added new sections
for lyrics and the Fuzzy Mountain
String Band
5 Jack
Herrick and Bland Simpson send info about the current
Red Clay Ramblers
May, 1999
29 1976-1981 Red
Clay Ramblers tour calendars posted
27 "Sweet
Corn," the 1978 chapter of Blurred Time
25 Bill's short
story "War Pipes" carries on 1977 for Blurred
Time
20 Jesse's
first update on her dad's condition
19 Article from
The
Smithsonian about the Red Clay Ramblers at the Carter
Family Store
15 Lots of new
pics arrive from Mike to expand the Photo Album
9 The
current Red Clay Ramblers are getting a Tony
for Fool Moon!
5 Installment
two of Blurred Time
April, 1999
17 Blurred
Time souvenirs posted--interviews, flyer, Prairie Home Companion
newsletter, reviews, hand-written production notes on Chuckin' the Frizz
March, 1999
31 Diamond
Studs gets its own section
29 Flyer
and coverage from Jim's CD Celebration party for Don't Tell Me, I Don't
Know
28 Blurred
Time, Bill's history of the Red Clay Ramblers, starts in 1972
26 Jesse Thompson
Eustice joins in with information on her dad Tommy
Thompson
25 Mike Craver
sends some pics
24 Stories
of the Red Clay Ramblers were added as reports came in from Bill Hicks,
Kerry Blech, and Perry Young
20 FLASH
section created on the home page to publicize Jim's 3/27/99 concert
18 The Original
Red Clay Ramblers site was posted on March 18, 1999 with the
home
page, Ramblers Now, Photo
Album, discography, and links
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