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Clarence Ashley
voc, g, 1895-1967 US, Bristol, Tennessee
Singer / Musician of Country and World
A.k.a. Clarence Earl McCurry Oscar Brown (3)
Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29, 1895 – June 2, 1967) was an American musician and singer, who played the clawhammer banjo and the guitar. He began performing at medicine shows in the Southern Appalachian region as early as 1911, and gained initial fame during the late 1920s as both a solo recording artist and as a member of various string bands. After his "rediscovery" during the folk revival of the 1960s, Ashley spent the last years of his life playing at folk music concerts, including appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.
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Coo Coo Bird on Presents Music from Searching for The Wrong Eyed Jesus by Jim White Little Sadie on Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways by Various Artists The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) on American Epic: The Collection by Various Artists The House Carpenter - 2020 Remaster on The House Carpenter by Clarence Ashley Dark Holler Blues on Blue Ballads strings bands Vol 2 by Various Artists Dark Holler Blues on The Rose Grew Round the Briar, Vol. 1: Early American Rural Love Songs by Various Artists House of the Rising Sun on Bob Dylan - Constructing the Legend by Various Artists Crawdad Song on Top 110 Classics - The Very Best of Clarence Ashley by Clarence Ashley Little Sadie on My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1 by Various Artists Greenback Dollar on Top 110 Classics - The Very Best of Clarence Ashley by Clarence AshleyTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live And In Person: Greenwich Village 1963 | Clarence Ashley | 2017 | Album |
| Greenback Dollar (The Music Of Clarence "Tom" Ashley 1929-1933) | Clarence Ashley | 2001 | Compil. |
| The Original Folkways Recordings Of Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley (1960 Through 1962) | Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley | 1994 | Compil. |
| Play And Sing American Folk Music | Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley | 1966 | Album |
| Penitentiary Bound | Clarence Ashley And Clarence Greene | 1933 | Album |
| The Fiddler's Contest / Over At Tom's House | Clarence Ashley | 1933 | Album |
| Corrina, Corrina / Short Life Of Trouble | Clarence Ashley & Will Abernathy & Clarence Greene | 1932 | Album |
| Haunted Road Blues / My Sweet Farm Girl | Clarence Ashley | 1932 | Album |
| Little Sadie / Naomi Wise | Clarence Ashley | 1930 | Album |
| Dark Holler Blues / The Coo Coo Bird | Clarence Ashley | 1929 | Album |
| Crooked Creek Blues / Drunk Man Blues | Walter Davis / Clarence Ashley | Album |
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