FIRST
CD TOGETHER! Craver,
Hicks, Watson, Newberry FIRST
CD TOGETHER!
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Craver,
Hicks, Watson, Newberry
You've
Been A Friend To Me
Barker
Records 2012 (2012) The long-awaited first official recording from Mike
Craver, Bill Hicks, Jim Watson, and Joe Newberry.
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CD: Mike's
Store | from Jim
Sally
Ann, Kiss Me Quick, Missouri Borderland, The Man From Tennessee, I'm Getting
Ready to Go, How Does a Glass Eye Work?, Uncle Charlie's Revenge, My Old
Cottage Home, Ship in the Clouds/Red Fox, In the Shadow of the Pines, Lowe
Bonnie, Piney Mountains, Tying Ten Knots in the Devil's Tail, You've Been
a Friend To Me, Texas Gals
"gloriously
revives the spirit and sound of the Ramblers’ early years" ... Jack
Bernhardt, Raleigh News & Observer. Full
review
"There
is great singing, great fiddling, great banjo playing, and great everything
else. Have you figured out yet that I give my highest recommendation to
this recording? If you like old-time music, if you like music period, find
this recording and play it over and over again, and you will see what I
mean." ...Bluegrass Unlimited. Full
review
"in
terms of elan and verve and all those other words that point to the all-important
spirit, You've Been a Friend to Me ranks right near the top." ...Bill Wagner,
The
Old Time Herald (full review) |
Craver,
Hicks, Watson, Newberry individual projects
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Bill
& Libby Hicks South
of Nowhere
Copper Creek CCCD-0193
(2001) Bill & Libby Hicks range from old-time tunes to Bill's original
songs, blues to folk
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CD: from
Bill | Amazon
Dog Passed Ryestraw, Evenin'
Breeze, Big Road Blues, Sugar Hill/Sally Ann, Reelin' Down, Anasazi Premonition,
It Hurts Me Too, Turn Out the Lights, Ducks on the Mill Pond, The
Island Rockers, Tear Stained Eye, Beautiful, John Henry, Uncle Charlie's
Revenge
Bill
& Libby's homepage
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MP3 of "Turn Out the Lights"
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Mike
Craver
Bosh
& Moonshine
Sapsucker (2013) 17 songs
from Mike Craver's musicals (BOSH AND MOONSHINE, THE BELLE OF THE WABASH,
SARAH BERNHARDT IN TEXAS, and OKLAHOMA HALE & DAMNATION)
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CD: Mike's
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The Beautiful The Bibulous
Babylon, The Ballad of Frederick Fosdick, The Mortician from Morden Manitoba,
The Ballad of Deadwood Dan, Summerville Colorado, There's a Hole in Your
Tights, Oh What a Golden Dream, What Ladies Love, The Night I Met Miss
B., The Dame of Camellias, The Girl in the Gem Saloon, Ode to Mysterious
Dave Mather, When It's Rhubarb Time in Orangeville, The Ghost in the Theatre,
Stuffed People, Railroading on the Great I. C., Yesteryear.
Mike's
homepage
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Jim
Watson
Christmas
at the Cave
Barker
1225 (2012) Jim's 26th annual Christmas at the Cave show now on CD!
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CD: from Jim
Christmas
Time's A-Coming, Making Plans, That Old Christmas Moon, On This Christmas
Day, The Birthday of our King, Mary's Boy Child, Nothing But A Child, Old
Toy Trains, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy,
One of Everything You Got, Up On the Housetop, There's No Place Like Home
for the Holidays/There's No Place Like Home on Christmas, Christmas in
the Trenches, O Little Town of Bethlehem, I Heard the Bells on Christmas
Day, Away in a Manger, White Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
BONUS VIDEOS on the CD: We Three Kings, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Jim's
homepage
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Bill
Hicks
The
Perfect Gig
Admit One 1001(2002) Bill
Hicks' first solo record of all original songs and includes live versions
from The Cave, Chapel Hill, NC
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CD: from
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| Amazon
The SOB in the Carvel Truck,
Deer Hunter's Blues, Polar Bears on the Moon, By Half, The Evidence, Wet
July, When Change is No Longer Possible, Were They Happy?, Noir Bubble,
Water Lights, Bridges, Play "Rocky Top", Exposure, The Perfect Gig, La
Senorita de la Launderia, Uncle Charlie's Revenge, Last Call |
Mike
Craver and Clyde Edgerton
The
Bible Salesman
Sapsucker 2328 (2009)
Story and song from the latest novel by Clyde Edgerton, read and performed
by Clyde and Mike
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CD: Mike's
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Mrs. Albright's, Uncle Jack,
Mr. Clearwater, Marleen, Bunny, Sunday School, A Departure, Bra Business,
Day of Reckoning, McGarren Island, and including "Sweet as the Flowers
in Maytime" by the Carter Family and other chestnuts, as well as 9 new
original songs |
Jim
Watson
This
World Would Be All Sunshine
Barker
726 (2008) Jim Watson's third solo CD. Also
appearing, Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Joe Newberry, Kevin Maul, Gary Williamson,
Alice
Gerrard, Chris Bashear, LeRoy Savage, Tony Williamson, and Comfort Collins
Smith
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CD: from Jim
If I Only Had a Home, Somewhere
Down Below the Dixon Line, Sweet Sunny South, The Death of Ellenton, Have
I Stayed Away Too Long, Calling the Prodigal, Prodigal Son, A Distant Land
to Roam, Write a Letter to My Mother, Daddy and Home, Mother's Last Farewell
Kiss, Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight, A Vision of Mother,
Prairie Lullaby, Uncloudy Day, If I Only Had a Home |
Joe
Newberry
Two
Hands
5-String
Productions 5SP-CD05003 (2005) Joe's solo CD includes many of his original
songs
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CD: from Joe
Rachel,
Rocky Island, Rambling Hobo, Missouri Borderland, Roustabout, Swannanoa
Tunnel, Ida Red, Lost Gander, Country Blues, Sandy Boys, Midnight on the
Water, The Train That Carried My Girl From Town, Protect the Innocent,
I Know Whose Tears, Backstep Cindy, Resurrection Day/The Dusty Miller,
Reuben, Christmas Eve, On This Christmas Day, Breaking Up Christmas |
Mike
Craver
Wagoner's
Lad
Sapsucker 2323 (1999)
Mike Craver's second solo album
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CD: Mike's
Store
A Wagoner's Lad, Black Randy,
Waiting for the Coming Storm, Little Brown Bat, Dewberry Place, Down at
the Crossroads, Freddy, Ollie's Song, Soldier in the Rain, In the Bottom
of the Leadville Mine, Lord Gregory/Big Tree Lodge, Judy, One Day When
Now Is Gone
See
Mike's
Store for cast recordings from his plays, sheet music, and songs
from Lunch at the Piccadilly |
Jim
Watson
Willie's
Redemption
Barker
1107 (2001) Jim Watson's second solo CD. Also
appearing, Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Chris Frank, Alan Jabbour, Joe Newberry,
Tony Williamson, Gary Williamson, Alice Gerrard, Bill Newton, Bill DeTurk,
Robin & Linda Williams, Kevin Maul
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CD: from Jim
Jordan Is a Hard Road to
Travel/Jawbones, My Blue-Eyed Jane, Sad and Blue, Lazy Farmer Boy, In the
Hills of Tennessee, Leaving Dear Old Ireland, Sinking in the Lonesome Sea,
If the River Was Whiskey, Mississippi Moon, Ragged Bill, Let's Be Lovers
Again, Tell Mother I Will Meet Her, The Light at the River |
Mike Craver
Theater....

Radio
Gals | Oil City Symphony
Lunch
at the Piccadilly
Mike Craver has several
theater projects on CD. Please visit Mike's store for more
info and purchasing.
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Mike
Craver
Shining
Down
Sapsucker 2324 (2002)
Mike Craver's third solo - a programme of comic novelties and pensive ballades
sung and played upon the pianoforte
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CD: Mike's
Store
Diamond
Lil, Kalamazoo, Dear Mr. Gershwin, That Wicky Wacky Hula Hula Honka Wonka
Honolulu Hawaiian Honey of Mine, Shining Down, Cimarron Cyclone, Butterfield
Stage, When I Was a Little Wee Babe, Argonne Wood, Edwin, Rhode Island
is Famous For You, Everyone's Gone to the Moon, I'm Yellow,
Watson Come Here I Want You |
Jim
Watson
Don't
Tell Me, I Don't Know
Barker 1218 (1999) Jim
Watson's first solo record - Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, Chris Frank, others
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CD: from Jim
Them Beautiful Bottles,
Just Keep Waiting 'Til the Good Times Come, I'm Going to the West, Miss
the Mississippi and You, Walls of Time, Leaving Home, Elzic's Farewell,
Faded Coat of Blue, Bill Mason, My Carolina Sunshine Girl, Young Emily,
Mother The Queen of My Heart, Sugar Coated Love, Reunion in Heaven |
Mike
Craver
Mould's Undertaking
Sapsucker (2020) Based on characters shared between Mike's 5 musicals and their scores.
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Five Little Sinners, When I Was a Little
Wee Babe, Good Time Girl, The Wayward Sister, It's the Actor's Life for
Me, The Ballad of Fannie Mae Garrettson, Simon Peter, I Ain't Dead Yet,
A Bell Jar in Washington Square, I'll Get You Coming & Going, I'm
Going to Join the Foreign Legion, The Ballad of Mysterious Dave Mather,
From Austin to Abilene, Goodbye Big Jim, My Heart Belongs in Illinois,
When You Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil, Asenaloogah, Alas I'm a Poor
Little Woodpecker, I'm a Little More Comfortable, Fester in the Western
Sun, The Great Cimarron Cyclone
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Mike
Craver
Fishing
For Amour
CD
bonus tracks!!
Flying Fish 330 (1984) Mike
Craver's first solo album
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LP/CDR: Mike's
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Fishing for Amour, Woolly
Sheepsong, When You're Lying Awake, Always Leave 'Em Laughin' When you
Say Goodbye; Life's A Funny Proposition After All, Mythic Time, The French
Paratrooper. Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite, Parisian Pierrot,
Spoonyland, Councilhouse in Gabarone, Back In Your Own Backyard, bonus
CD tracks: Old Mister Soul, Secrets in the Sand, The Way You
Look Tonight, Jim |
Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, & Tommy Thompson
Meeting
in the Air
CD
Version is here!
Flying Fish FF-219 (1980)
Songs of the Carter Family
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CD: Mike's
Store Anchored in Love,
While the Band Is Playing Dixie, The Stern Old Bachelor, The Winding Stream,
The Schoolhouse on the Hill, The Wayworn Traveler, Meeting in the Air,
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, One Little Word, Dixie Darling, Lula Walls,
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?, Give Me the Roses, When the Roses Bloom
in Dixieland |
FREE
MP3 ~~ "Texas
Gals" ~~ FREE MP3
from
Mike Craver, Bill Hicks, Jim Watson, & Joe Newberry
WETS Radio Johnson City
TN broadcast 2006
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Mike
Craver, Bill Hicks, and Jim Watson on Red Clay Ramblers recordings
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(arranged
however we saw fit -- see the Photo Album
for chronological order)
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Stolen
Love
Flying Fish FF-009 (l975)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Yellow Rose of Texas, Big
Sciota, Abe's Retreat, The Golden Vanity, Stolen Love,
I Got What It Takes (But
It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away), Keep the Home Fires Burning, Honey
Babe, Balleydesmond Polka, Wind and Rain, She's Been After Man Ever Since,
Kingdom Coming (In the Year of Jubilo), Staten Island Hornpipe, Parting
Hand, Forked Deer |
Chuckin'
the Frizz (Live at the Cat's Cradle)
Flying Fish FF 089 (1979)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Fourth of July at a Country
Fair, Thoroughly African Man, Cabin Home, Hot Buttered Rum, Three Bells
Road, Baby Grand, Play "Rocky Top", Santa Anna's March/Fine Times at Our
House/Donegal Reel, Aragon Mill, Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo, Tilly Take Your Time,
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider
Frizz
EXTRAS page
with
some fine honors and reviews
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Hard
Times
Flying Fish FF-246 (1981)
This is Bill's last recording with RCR. He's on 4 songs*;
Clay Buckner fiddles on the others with Jack Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike
Craver, Tommy Thompson
Chesapeake Bay*,
Wind and Rain, Fiddler A Dram/Murphy's Hornpipe, Matinee Idol, The Face
in the Mirror*, Hard Times*,
Chicken, Trip to Sligo/Priest and His Boots/Three Little Drummers, I Crept
Into the Crypt, When the Goldenrod is Blooming Once Again*,
Three Guys, The Gang's Gone Home, Long Time Traveling |
First recording below,
second above
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Two Red Clay
Ramblers recordings on one CD!
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Red
Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin' Al McCanless
Folkways 31039 (1974)
The very first Red Clay Ramblers LP!
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
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the music Smithsonian
Folkways
Boogerboo, My Only Sweetheart,
Kissing is a Crime, Tell it to Me, Ducks on the Pond, Wagon Yard, Durang's
Hornpipe, Girl Behind the Bar, Birdie, Miller's Reel/Wake Up Susan, Tennessee
Coon, Call to a Foreign Field, Give the Fiddler a Dram, I Got the Whiskey,
Bolger's Hornpipe, House of David Blues, Traveling That Highway Home |
Merchants
Lunch
Flying Fish FF-055 (1977)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Merchants Lunch, A Beefalo
Special, Woman Down in Memphis, Molly Put the Kettle On, Milwaukee Blues,
Melancholy,
Rabbit in the Pea Patch,
I've Got Plans
Kildare's Fancy/Ships Are
Sailing/High Yellow (not on CD version), Daniel Prayed, Forked Deer,
Henhouse Blues, Sweet and Slow
Merchants
Lunch EXTRAS page!
Twisted
Laurel EXTRAS page!
Eugene
Chadbourne reviews!
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Twisted
Laurel
Flying Fish FF-030 (1976)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
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CD Mike's
Store
Blue Jay/The Girl I left
Behind Me, Twisted Laurel, The Hobo's Last Letter, Rockingham Cindy (not
on CD version), Mississippi Delta Blues, The Telephone Girl, Will You
Miss Me, The Ace, The Corrugated Lady, When Bacon Was Scarce/Ryestraw,
I Was Only Teasing You, Fifty Miles of Elbow Room, Flying Cloud Cotillion,
The Beale Street Blues
Note:
"Kildare's Fancy" and "High Yellow" from the LP version of Merchants Lunch
open and close early editions of Roy Underhill's The Woodwright's Shop
televised on PBS stations. |
A
Lie of the Mind
Sugar Hill, RCD 10034
(l986) The music for Sam's Shepard's play
RCR: Jack Herrick, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Clay Buckner
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CD Half.com
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Run Sister Run, South of
the Border in the Pines, Honey Babe, I Love You a Thousand Ways, Home is
Where the Heart Is, Seeing It Snow, BlueJay/The Gal I Left Behind Me, Light
Years Away, Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase, Red Rocking Chair, Montana
Underscoring, Killing Floor, Can't Live Without 'em Blues, Folding the
Flag/Hard Times |
It
Ain't Right
Flying Fish FF-334 (l986)
RCR: Jack Herrick, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Clay Buckner
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CD Rounder
It Ain't Right, Valley of
the Dry Bones, Dust and Nothing Else, Jim Cannaan's, Regions of Rain, Merchant's
Lunch, Old Fashioned Girl, Way Long Gone, Life's a Mystery
Willow Garden, Satan's Choir,
Fall on My Knees/The Wandering Boy |
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Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, & Bill Hicks recordings
with
the Red Clay Ramblers along with Other Folks
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Debby
McClatchy with the Red Clay Ramblers
Green Linnet SIF 1003
(1976)
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jim
Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson, Jack Herrick
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CD eBay
Seeing the Elephant, Brown
and Yellow Earl, I’ve Cried a Mile, Derry Down Fair, Just from Dawson,
Humbug Steamship Companies, Hills of Kentucky, Muirton Durken, You were
only F-bleep-g While I was Making Love, Dainty Davie, Apples in Winter,
Wife’s Lament, Land Beyond the Blue
Ramblers
say “we worked [with Debby] for the first time when Debby joined
the cast of “Diamond Studs” for the last three months of its New York run.
. .The pleasure of working with her on this record has far surpassed our
expectations.”
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Country
Protest
Fundamental Save 7 (1985)
Eugene Chadbourne
RCR: Jim Watson, Mike
Craver, Tommy Thompson, Jack Herrick, Clay Buckner
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Doing
My Job
Flying Fish 221 (1982)
© Si Kahn with backup
by the Red Clay Ramblers
RCR: Bill Hicks, Jack
Herrick, Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Tommy Thompson
Wild Rose of the Mountain,
Bleeding Hearts, Gentle With Me Darling, Rock a Little Baby, Black Gold,
Detroit December, Who's Watching the Man, Rock Me, Roll Me, Blue Ridge
Mountain Refugee, Doing My Job, Mississippi Summer, Old King Cotton, Five
Days a Week, Go to Work on Monday, Crossing the Border
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The Ramblers played on "Medley
in C" an 11-minute medley comprising Always on My Mind, Whiter Shade of
Pale, San Francisco Nights, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Imagine, TV Party, Misty,
Dang Me, England Swings, I Started a Joke, To Sir With Love, Some Guys
Have all the Luck, Waltz Across Texas, The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s
Grave. RCR was also a part of Wild Angels, W. Va Spec, and Universal
Soldier. (10 more songs) Some of the medley is also available
on Chadbourne Barber Shop. |
Jim
writes of the Country Protest Recording: "We met Eugene Chadbourne
when he married a friend of ours. Eugene and Emmy married in NYC
and we played at the reception. So we had known him for a while before
we recorded with him. He used to play semi-regularly in Chapel Hill
at the Cat's Cradle/Rhythm Alley and the Station in Carrboro. We
recorded the long medley (all songs in C) and an instrumental (the West
Va. Spec.) at Steve Gronbeck's TGS studio outside of Chapel Hill.
Mike's knowledge of rock 'n' roll came in handy with the medley.
There was some uncertainty about how the instrumental was going to end,
which is out there for all to hear, but Eugene thought it was great so
that's how it stayed on the album. He is one of the more unusual
performers that one will run across. I'm not sure I understand all
that he does, but there is no doubt that he is really talented and certainly
entertaining." |
CLASSIC
BLUEGRASS vol. 2 (2005), Smithsonian
Folkways CD. Our Ramblers perform "The Girl Behind the Bar"
from their first LP, The Red Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin' Al McCanless
(1974) |
The
booklets accompanying the Smithsonian
Folkways compilations have this to say about RCR: "The Red Clay Ramblers
are the most important group formed during the string-band revival that
occurred in the 1970s around Durham, in central North Carolina." |
CLASSIC
OLD-TIME MUSIC (2003),
Smithsonian
Folkways CD. Included are "House of David Blues" by the Red
Clay Ramblers and "Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy)" by Tommy Thompson and
Joe Thompson |