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"Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!...the Red Clay Ramblers are authentic... they play like angels auditioning for Gabriel." -- The New York Times
"A great American band!" --Sam Shepard
"Wonderful!" --Garrison Keillor
"Quintuple threats! Calling the members of the Red Clay Ramblers triple-threats is to sell them a couple threats short. First and foremost, there's the group's genre- and decade-hopping live performances, and then the plays they write and star in, the collaborations and the soundtrack work, not to mention books." --Rick Cornell, Independent Weekly
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New RCR Album! |
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In stock and shipping, an all new studio recording of songs and tunes with a Tar Heel taste!
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Latest Press on OLD NORTH STATE |
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Please read here a few kind words from Jack Betts of the Charlotte Observer about our "statriotic" CD:
http://jackbetts.blogspot.com/2009/10/statriotic-cd-old-north-state.html
and from David Menconi of the News & Observer:
http://www.newsobserver.com/life/story/162698.html
and from Bernie Reeves of Metro NC:
http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=2009<
and from Robert Kelly-Goss of The Daily Advance:
http://www.dailyadvance.com/features/ramblers-old-north-state-entertaining-nostalgic-930439.html
and here a nice comment from Andrew Ritchey in the Independent Weekly:
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:403997
Listen to our performance on STATE OF THINGS, WUNC FM (Oct 23, 2009):
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1023c09.mp3/view |
From the Archives: RCR in Syria, 1992 |
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"'Music is not a product, but a process, the beginning of a process. It is constantly renewall. It starns the test as art by giving rise to traditions,' says Blard Simpson, member of the US musical band Red Clay ramblers currently visiting Syria at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture..." - Syria Times
There are no typos in that quote, believe it or not, from the english language Syria Times, from an interview Bland did during our trip there for the State Department in 1992 (we used to send bluegrass and jazz over "there", instead of boys and bombs). He is also quoted saying our music was "mainly built on the charm and deep affection of a country or say mountain music, to which art is always graded in the first place.", and listed Tommy thusly: Tomay Thopson Cleader (banjo). Ha! Tommy was henceforth "the Cleader" (I don't think we realized it should have been "Mr. Cleader"!).
We traversed Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan and Egypt on the tour, a fabulous time, we were ambassadors and celebrities for six great weeks. Click here for a pdf of the entire article.
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Upcoming Shows |
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Please join The Red Clay Ramblers at one of these upcoming events in 2010:
March 12th: Boykin Cultural Center, Wilson, NC (7:30 PM)
July 7-11: Vancouver Island Music Festival, Vancouver Island, BC
July 24th: NC Museum of Art Amphitheatre, Raleigh,NC
Oct. 15-17 LEAF Festival, Black Mountain, NC
Oct. 22nd: Turnage Theater, Washington, NC
Oct. 23rd: First Flight Performing Arts, Kill Devil Hills, NC |
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Last Updated on Friday, 15 January 2010 08:04 |
With Our Compliments, Sheet Music for "The North Carolina State Toast" |
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Here's to the land of the long leaf pine, the summer land where the sun doth shine...
As sung by the Red Clay Ramblers on the all-new Old North State album, please download and enoy this "gift of music", a lovely musicalized setting of our beloved state toast, penned by our own Jack Herrick and Bland Simpson. Click here to download, print, and take right to your parlor after supper, raise a glass and your voice in song!
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