anon-C515 Red Clay Ramblers – Hot Rize, Red Knuckles 3/6/1981
Red Clay Ramblers
Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers
Philadelphia Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival
Philadelphia, PA
March 6, 1981
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Source: Anonymous Collection Cassette #315
Maxell UL 90:Nakamichi ZX7>Nickspicks Silver Hydra’s>Lunatec V3 @ 24/48>M-Audio Firewire 410
Transfer by Keith Kreider 04/11/07
Disc One/Side A
Red Clay Ramblers:
1. (Applause)
2. Give the Fiddler a Dram/Murphy’s Hornpipe
3. Aragon Mill
4. Woman Down in Memphis
5. Thoroughly African Man
6. Chesapeake Bay
7. I Crept Into the Crypt
8. C-H-I-C-K-E-N
9. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
10. Daniel Prayed
11. Hard Times
12. Merchant’s Lunch
Disc Two/Side B
Hot Rize:
1. Blue Night
2. Nellie Kane…(Band Intros)
3. Land of Enchantment
4. Radio Boogie
5. Martha White Theme
6. Just Ain’t
7. Durham’s Reel…(enter Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers)
8. Travelin’ Blues
9. Dixie Cannonball…”Trailblazer Dog Food”
10. Cadillacin’ Model A
11. Tom & Jerry…(enter Jerry Douglas)
12. The Prayer Bells of Heaven
13. Train 45
Notes: Listed as “Red Clay Ramblers, Hot Rize, 1981-March-06 Philadelphia Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival”
This sounds like a handheld audience recording.
Anonymous Collection Cassette #315 transports us back to March 6, 1981 at the Philadelphia Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival, Philadelphia, PA for two performances: 1) the wonderfully eclectic and multi-talented Red Clay Ramblers (Tommy Thompson, Mike Craver, Jack Herrick, Jim Watson, & Clay Buckner), and 2) Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers (Tim O’Brien, Nick Forster, Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick, & Charles Sawtelle); Jerry Douglas guests on a couple of tunes. Not many Red Clay Rambler recordings circulate, making this a nice collector’s item. The sound may not be top-drawer, but the playing more than makes up for it. See Collection Cassette #316 for more sets from this festival. --Mitchell Wittenberg
