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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.
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) |
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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
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 |
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)
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. |
Jim
Watson
Christmas at the Cave Barker
1225 (2012) Jim's 26th annual Christmas at the Cave show now on CD!
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 |
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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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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
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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Joe
Newberry
Two Hands 5-String
Productions 5SP-CD05003 (2005) Joe's solo CD includes many of his original
songs
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Mike
Craver
Wagoner's Lad Sapsucker 2323 (1999) Mike Craver's second solo album Buy
CD: Mike's
Store
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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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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. |
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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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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Mike
CraverMould's Undertaking Sapsucker (2020) Based on characters shared between Mike's 5 musicals and their scores. Buy CD: Mike's Store 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 |
Mike
Craver
CD bonus tracks!! Buy LP/CDR: Mike's Store 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 Buy 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 |
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Stolen
Love
Flying Fish FF-009 (l975)
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Chuckin'
the Frizz (Live at the Cat's Cradle)
Flying Fish FF 089 (1979)
with some fine honors and reviews |
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
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Red
Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin' Al McCanless
Folkways 31039 (1974)
The very first Red Clay Ramblers LP!
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Merchants
Lunch
Flying Fish FF-055 (1977)
Twisted Laurel EXTRAS page! Eugene Chadbourne reviews! |
Twisted
Laurel
Flying Fish FF-030 (1976)
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A
Lie of the Mind
Sugar Hill, RCD 10034
(l986) The music for Sam's Shepard's play
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It
Ain't Right
Flying Fish FF-334 (l986)
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Debby
McClatchy with the Red Clay Ramblers
Green Linnet SIF 1003
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| 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 |
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