December, 2001
29    1988 Option Music Alternative magazine piece on RCR, Going Through Stages: the Many Careers of the Red Clay Ramblers.  Tommy discusses the band's relationship to old-time, Sam Shepard, Eugene Chadbourne, and Roger Miller.
25    Jesse found the itinerary for the Red Clay Ramblers 1992 trip to the Middle East.  Check out the calendar as well as an article on their appearance in the Jordan Times, May 3, 1992
23    In April 1970, the North Carolina Anvil published two articles about future Red Clay Ramblers.Bill Hicks wrote about Union Grove and his first trip there with the Fuzzy Mountain String Band.  The same issue also included "Peggin On in 1970 - An Interview with Banjo-player Tommy Thompson"
22    Jesse sent us some fabulous pictures that she will write about in the future.  We're leaving them to be mysteries for now.  Go to Jesse's Letters and click on Photo Album.
21    Merry Christmas to us!  We got rid of the popup ads on the site

November, 2001
24    Pics and songs from Bill Hicks' solo show at The Cave replace the report from his earlier Open Eye show
22    Jesse's letters: Two papers I found (treasures from the early '70s)
10    New pics on the Fuzzy Mountain String Band page.  Thank you Jesse Eustice for sending along a new view of Eric Olson, Bill Hicks with Tommy and Benny Jarrell, Bill with the Smokey Grass Band, and another in the series on the FMSB cover.
4      Jesse's letters: Elves

October, 2001
27    Jesse's letters: October visit to Dad
25    Jesse's letters: Certainty...gone the way of Newtonian Physics

September, 2001
13   The Ramblers frequently used the 1976 "Beefalo" pic (named after their van) for their publicity and now the home page has been redesigned around this expressive pic.  Many thanks to Cece Conway for a print of her excellent picture of the Original Red Clay Ramblers. 
3     Jesse's letters: Memories of Lone Star Love: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas from its beginnings in the early '70s.  The Red Clay Ramblers will be doing this show in Cleveland, Ohio, from October 18 - November 4, 2001

August, 2001
28    The old "Now" page turned into the new portal for "Now Pictures" - photo essays and reviews of the O'Blurs recent shows.
27    More information and pictures added to the page for A Tune for Tommy
16    Updated the album/sheet music page of the Photo Album
7      1977 reviews of the Red Clay Ramblers in London from Melody Maker and Sounds
1      Jesse's letters: Jesse's view of the O'Blurs reunion at the Festival of the Eno

July, 2001
24     Jesse's letters: visiting Tommy is harder in his new care center 2 hours away, but Marcia Edmundson (The Daughter in A Tune for Tommy) helps out from her homeplace nearby.
22     Added some Eno pics to Bill & Libby's concert page.
10     Busy day!  Reorganized the whole discography page on the site. We added a lot of links on where to buy ALL the music that the RCRs together and solo have made over the years.  Added a new pic page from Jim: Xmas at his house and The Cave and a 1997 benefit concert for Tommy Tompson
9      Added some O'Blur pics sent in by Debbie Sykes to the O'Blur reunion concert at the Festival of the Eno
8      Additions to current pages: Article by Harmen Mitchell, Ann Arbor News 9-7-85 about Tommy's John Proffit  and a 1997 pic of a Hollow Rock String Band reunion at a benefit for Tommy.
7      The biggest ORCR news in many years was the O'Blur reunion concert at the Festival of the Eno, July 4, 2001.  Pics, pics, pics!

June, 2001
21   Reviews are coming in for Bill & Libby's South of Nowhere.  The Durham Independent ("extraordinary") and the Green Man Review ("remarkable") agree with us that SofN is outstanding.
7    Jesse's letters: Jesse, David, and Joe Newberry visit Tommy

May, 2001
21    Mike's at it again.  He sent along a December, 1980 Cat's Cradle calendar that's a work of art and full of Blurs.  (And a tribute to the fallen John Lennon.)  And Mike got Chris Baker's permission to use his zany cartoon of the Blurs that was part of their 80's publicity.
11    "A Tune for Tommy" - Jesse's wonderful play (written with Jeff Storer and Ed Hunt), partially based on her letters on this site, has its own page for the reviews and news articles.  Read all about the workshop production.

April, 2001
7      Jesse's letters: Tommy in his new home - "...Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings..."
1     Updated the information on Bill & Libby and their homepage - so much is going on in their music and art that it's hard to keep up!

March, 2001
27    Report from Bill & Libby's House Concert for Dave Tilley's Bull City Cosmic Hoedown series
23   Tributes to Tommy Thompsonpage 2.  Ms. Judy Ingram's art students at Horton Middle School, Pittsboro, NC,  interpret Tommy's "Hot Buttered Rum"
20   The net gawdz relent and our server brings us back!
18   Oh myyyyy...suddenly the web site finds itself homeless and Chris Frank takes the orphaned waifs in to the official redclayramblers.com server.
15   It's here!  Bill and Libby Hicks' new CD South of Nowhere - read all about it and order your copy today!
2     1978 interview "Ramblers Bill Hicks Lives for Music"
1    Jessie's letters: a registered nurse, writing anonymously, gives us an update on Tommy

February, 2001
5     Bill Hicks has more talents than fiddlin', singing and songwriting (if that weren't enough!). See his new site for William N. Hicks Masonry
1    Jesse's letters: "What Comes From Deep Inside When the Body Won't Obey"

January, 2001
28   Added new pics of Jack, Mike and Clay to page 6 of the Photo Album.  All the pics on the page were made much smaller to download faster, but click on them for a version big enough to see!
26   Bill Hicks reported back from Alan Jabbour and Jim Watson's House Concert in Durham on January 25.
21   Shortened the homepage and split off the current performances to their own Flash page.  Don't you forget to go look!
19   Flyer from Williamsburg, VA's Chickahominy Bluegrass Festival from Mike's mom's scrapbook
14   Mike Craver sent some new pictures: RCR at the Ranch House with Diamond Studs, around the Beefalo, and a pic with a terrific article from Ed Davis of the Greensboro Daily News.  Now you'll know why Audio Magazine called the Ramblers "America's premier whatzit band." AND Mike found the clipping of Newsweek/Jack Kroll's review of Diamond Studs.
1     Happy New Year!  We're adding two articles from the November, 1980, issue of Frets, The Magazine of Acoustic String Instruments.  The first is Tommy Thompson - High-energy Clawhammer Banjo, followed by The Red Clay Ramblers - String Band Music for the '80s