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![]() Craver, Hicks, Watson, Newberry 30th Carter Family Memorial Festival Carter Family Fold, Hiltons, Virginia August 6, 2004 |
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Craver, Hicks, Watson, Newberry return to the Carter Family Fold for their second appearance in 2004. The guys warm up before their afternoon set. Jim Watson was inside getting ready for his performance as part of Robin & Linda Williams' Fine Group |
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The day was magical both for the performances and the perfect weather, cool, sunny, not a drop of rain. unheard of for a fest! |
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Clowning around
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The building in the background is the A.P. Carter store where the performances were held before the Fold was built and where Tommy Thompson crashed through the window in the Red Clay Ramblers' 1976 debut. (story) | |
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Mike minding
the store. The featurned item was the CD version of Meeting in
the Air which arrived hot off the presses the week before.
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hit back to return |
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Robin & Linda Williams and their Fine Group (Jimmy Gaudreaux and Jim Watson) in their afternoon set at the Carter Family Festival |
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Rockingham Cindy Telephone Girl Winding Stream Stolen Love Sugar Hill The Ace Wagon Yard The Band was Playing Dixie Leather Britches Merchants Lunch |
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Yellow Rose of Texas Aragon Mill Play Rocky Top Are You Tired of Me My Darling Sally Ann Daniel Prayed I Know Whose Tears Hobo's Last Letter You Have Been a Friend to Me Soldier's Joy Beale Street Blues Rabbit in the Pea Patch Susananna Gal Merchants Lunch (Reprise) |
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Beyond the extraordinary music, the evening set had several good stories. |
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Story #1 started in the afternoon. A three-generation family of fans from Toronto, Canada, stopped by the CD table as soon as it was set up. "Who sings 'Are You Tired of Me My Darling'?" Mike Craver, they were told. During the afternoon set, they were overheard spreading the news to each other, "It's the one in the white t-shirt." Just before the evening set, about a dozen members of the lovely group appeared back at the table to ask Mike to please sing their favorite song from Meeting in the Air. It wasn't on the set list, but delighting the Toronto fans and all the audience, Mike took the stage all alone to sing "Are You Tired of Me My Darling." Thanks, Mike, "the man behind THAT voice." | ![]() Look at the guitars... |
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Story #2 - Our
guys sang Joe Newberry's song "I Know Whose Tears" based on the poem read
at Sara Carter's funeral. (Jim Watson and Mike Craver also sang
at Sara Carter's funeral in 1979.) Here's the poem. The
song can be found on Big
Medicine's new CD Fever in the South.
If I were hanged on the highest
hill,
--Rudyard Kipling
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Story #3 is the party that got going in the second set. It was late, headed toward midnight, and the folks still wanted to dance. They left their seats and stayed down on the dance floor, demanding fiddle tunes and encore after encore. We lost track. Make sure you're at the next one and see for yourself. | ![]() John McCutcheon joins Craver, Hicks, Watson, Newberry in one of the many encores. |
The
Red Clay Ramblers - Carter Family Connections
The
Smithsonian magazine article about the Red Clay Ramblers at the Fold 1976
Craver,
Hicks, Watson, Newberry at the Fold June 21, 2003 | January
2004
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