“A great American band.”–Sam Shepard
“Wonderful!”–Garrison Keillor
“Masters of bluegrass, blues, cowboy songs, and fiddle with some pepper on it. A dazzling array of musical idioms.”
–Cincinnati Enquirer
“Acoustic music greats.” –Nashville Tennessean
“This band can turn in a half note from hoedown hoofing to swingy, sultry, finger-popping hoochie-coo.
Consummate musicianship and sense of theater.”–Louisville Courier-Journal
“A homespun combo, at ease with country, gospel and what sounds like 1920 pop tomfoolery. These
boys are a delight.” –Associated Press
“On my last visit [to the Carter Family Fold] I saw the Red Clay Ramblers, and they were great.” –Johnny Cash
“America’s premier whatzit band.”–Audio Magazine
“Always-versatile space-age old-time ensemble… Far and away the Triangle’s most successful musical group ever.”
–Raleigh News & Observer
“The Red Clay Ramblers are irresistible.” –New York Newsday
“An elegant weave of acoustic and electronic textures. Bristling drive!”
–Washington Post
“Endlessly inventive… a bluegrass, jazz and general zaniness ensemble with a full helping of musical mirth.”
–San Francisco Examiner
“Though they’re a walking encyclopedia of Americana, the Ramblers never forget they’re up there to
entertain… and their music is a potpourri plucked from the mind set of All Things Considered and delivered with a
tongue-in-cheek twang.” –Greensboro News & Record
“A musical group whose eclectic repertory is that of a fantasy roadhouse band from a vanished rural America.
Bluegrass, New Orleans, classical folk and gospel sounds emerge in nutty profusion from these talented
instrumentalists and singers, whose music making is perfection.”–The New York Times
“Remarkable.”–The New Yorker
“The brilliant string band from North Carolina.” –The Nation
“Utmost skill and knowledge in an entertaining variety of genres.” –Kalamazoo Gazette
“Set up on the riverbank and played their sweet music for hours at a time.”–Pat Conroy, Beach Music
“Seduces the crowd.”–Le Telegramme (L’Orient, France)
“They know how to make the crowd go wild.” –Ouest-France (L’Orient, France)
“One of the most versatile and entertaining groups, regardless of style, performing today!” –Cincinnati Post
“Acoustic purveyors of down-home foot-stomping music with attitude.” –Seattle Times
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!…the Red Clay Ramblers are authentic… they play like angels auditioning for Gabriel.”
— New York Times
“I like two kinds of music – jazz and the Red Clay Ramblers” –Coach Dean Smith, UNC Basketball
“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, multilayered affairs in their own right. Then there are the plays they write and star in, the collaborations and the soundtrack work, not to mention books.”–Independent Weekly
“North Carolina string-band masterminds… Probably no other on-stage band in history has given more
heart and soul with so much inspired genius.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A country band that not only redefines ‘country’ but also redefines ‘band’.”–The New York Post
