In nearly four decades of existence, the Red Clay Ramblers have conquered Broadway, movies and darn near every style of folk-related music imaginable. But now, finally, it is apparent why they were put on this Earth: To make their new album, "Old North State" ( redclayramblers.com). Equal parts musical history lesson and love letter to North Carolina, "Old North State" rambles far and wide between murder-ballad mysteries, literary hugeness and big-band swing, rendered with the Ramblers' customary down-home charm. The group plays at 7:30 tonight at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books and Music, at the release party for the 2009 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review. The program also includes a reading by poet Betty Adcock.
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Elsewhere tonight
Elsewhere tonight: Blues-rock hotshot Derek Trucks lights up Durham's Carolina Theatre; Starmount bring ambient twang to Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh; and Southern Culture on the Skids turn up in Raleigh to play the Berkeley Cafe, with John Howie's Rosewood Bluff opening.
Saturday is Halloween, with lots of promisingly offbeat tribute-band action in local clubs. Durham's Pinhook re-creates a 1970s-vintage night at punk-birthplace CBGBs with Heart of Glass (a tribute to Blondie), Amps Do Furnish a Room (Television) and the Ramonas (an all-female version of the Ramones). Chapel Hill's Local 506 has Rolling Stones cover band Some Girls with Cheap Trick tributaries Southern Girls. And if you'd rather hear original songs, there's Toubab Krewe at Carrboro's Cat's Cradle.
Furthermore: Raleigh's Pour House has the garage-friendly lineup of Leadfoot, Bad Checks, Bleeding Hearts and Richard Bacchus on Sunday; living legend Leonard Cohen graces the Durham Performing Arts Center stage Tuesday (see page 1D); New York twang-folk group Red Rooster is at Chapel Hill's Cave Wednesday; and Thursday brings the dynamic duo of Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs to the Carborro ArtsCenter, and punk legends Jesus Lizard to the Cradle.
