Press/Quotes
“A great American band.” --Sam Shepard
"Wonderful!" --Garrison Keillor
“Masters of bluegrass, blues, cowboy songs, and fiddle with some pepper on it. A dazzling array of musical idioms.”
--Cincinnati Enquirer
“Acoustic music greats.” --Nashville Tennessean
“This band can turn in a half note from hoedown hoofing to swingy, sultry, finger-popping hoochie-coo.
Consummate musicianship and sense of theater.” --Louisville Courier-Journal
“A homespun combo, at ease with country, gospel and what sounds like 1920 pop tomfoolery. These
boys are a delight.” --Associated Press
"On my last visit [to the Carter Family Fold] I saw the Red Clay Ramblers, and they were great." --Johnny Cash
“America's premier whatzit band." --Audio Magazine
“Always-versatile space-age old-time ensemble… Far and away the Triangle's most successful musical group ever.”
--Raleigh News & Observer
“The Red Clay Ramblers are irresistible.” --New York Newsday
“An elegant weave of acoustic and electronic textures. Bristling drive!”
--Washington Post
“Endlessly inventive… a bluegrass, jazz and general zaniness ensemble with a full helping of musical mirth.”
--San Francisco Examiner
“Though they're a walking encyclopedia of Americana, the Ramblers never forget they're up there to
entertain… and their music is a potpourri plucked from the mind set of All Things Considered and delivered with a
tongue-in-cheek twang.” --Greensboro News & Record
“A musical group whose eclectic repertory is that of a fantasy roadhouse band from a vanished rural America.
Bluegrass, New Orleans, classical folk and gospel sounds emerge in nutty profusion from these talented
instrumentalists and singers, whose music making is perfection.” --The New York Times
“Remarkable.” --The New Yorker
“The brilliant string band from North Carolina.” --The Nation
“Utmost skill and knowledge in an entertaining variety of genres.” --Kalamazoo Gazette
“Set up on the riverbank and played their sweet music for hours at a time.” --Pat Conroy, Beach Music
“Seduces the crowd.” --Le Telegramme (L’Orient, France)
“They know how to make the crowd go wild.” --Ouest-France (L’Orient, France)
“One of the most versatile and entertaining groups, regardless of style, performing today!” --Cincinnati Post
“Acoustic purveyors of down-home foot-stomping music with attitude.” --Seattle Times
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!...the Red Clay Ramblers are authentic... they play like angels auditioning for Gabriel."
-- New York Times
"I like two kinds of music – jazz and the Red Clay Ramblers" --Coach Dean Smith, UNC Basketball
"Quintuple threats! Calling the members of the Red Clay Ramblers triple-threats is to sell them a couple threats
short. First and foremost, there's the group's genre- and decade-hopping live performances, multilayered affairs i
n their own right. Then there are the plays they write and star in, the collaborations and the soundtrack work,
not to mention books." --Independent Weekly
“North Carolina string-band masterminds… Probably no other on-stage band in history has given more
heart and soul with so much inspired genius.” --Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A country band that not only redefines ‘country’ but also redefines ‘band’.” --The New York Post