Red Clay Ramblers + Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers

Philadelphia Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival

Philadelphia, PA  

March 6, 1981



Transfer: spps-anon1C315 by Keith Kreider 04/11/07 - Maxell UL 90:Nakamichi ZX7>Nickspicks Silver Hydra's>Lunatec V3 @ 24/48>M-Audio Firewire 410



1. (Applause) (Red Clay Ramblers)

2. Give the Fiddler a Dram/Murphy's Hornpipe (Red Clay Ramblers)

3. Aragon Mill (Red Clay Ramblers)

4. Woman Down in Memphis (Red Clay Ramblers)

5. Thoroughly African Man (Red Clay Ramblers)

6. Chesapeake Bay (Red Clay Ramblers)

7. I Crept Into the Crypt (Red Clay Ramblers)

8. C-H-I-C-K-E-N (Red Clay Ramblers)

9. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room (Red Clay Ramblers)

10. Daniel Prayed (Red Clay Ramblers)

11. Hard Times (Red Clay Ramblers)

12. Merchant's Lunch (Red Clay Ramblers)



1. Blue Night (Hot Rize)

2. Nellie Kane...(Band Intros) (Hot Rize)

3. Land of Enchantment (Hot Rize)

4. Radio Boogie (Hot Rize)

5. Martha White Theme (Hot Rize)

6. Just Ain't (Hot Rize)

7. Durham's Reel...(enter Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers) (Hot Rize)

8. Travelin' Blues (Hot Rize)

9. Dixie Cannonball..."Trailblazer Dog Food" (Hot Rize)

10. Cadillacin' Model A (Hot Rize)

11. Tom & Jerry...(enter Jerry Douglas) (Hot Rize)

12. The Prayer Bells of Heaven (Hot Rize)

13. Train 45 (Hot Rize)



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



Notes: Listed as "Red Clay Ramblers, Hot Rize, 1981-March-06 Philadelphia Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival"

This sounds like a handheld audience recording.



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