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Clarence "Tom" Ashley
12+ albums
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(AKA and slightly streamable as clarence ashley)From the time of Tom Clarence Ashley's birth, he was surrounded by the old-time music and the ballads that had traveled the Atlantic along with America's early settlers. The Ashley family came to America from Ireland before the turn of the eighteenth century and settled in eastern Virginia. They later moved west to Ashe County, North Carolina. Shortly after the Civil War, Joe Ashley's son Enoch married Tas Robinson's daughter Martha (Mat). Enoch and "Mat" were a musical pair, both singing the old ballads which they had learned from family and friends. This marriage was blessed with three daughters who, like their parents, developed a love for music. Ary and Daisy played the banjo and sang, and Rosie-Belle sang with a beautifully clear voice. In 1894, Rosie-Belle, the youngest daughter, married George McCurry, an accomplished fiddler. After Rosie-Belle and George had been married about a year, Enoch Ashley acquired information that George was married to at least one other young lady. George was run out of town and Rosie-Belle returned to her father's home. Later, it was suspected that George had given his name in marriage to at least four or five women. On September 29, 1895, shortly after Rosie-Belle returned to her father's home in Bristol, Tennessee, she gave birth to a son, Clarence Earle McCurry. After moving from Bristol back to Ashe County, North Carolina, Enoch Ashley's family finally settled in Mountain City, Tennessee,
top songs
albums
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Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3A: Songs
Greenback Dollar
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Greenback Dollar: 1929-1933
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American Folk Music
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Anthology of American Folk Music
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Greenback Dollar (1929-33)
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Greenback Dollar 1929-1933
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Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3: Songs
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Greenback Dollar (1929-1933)
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Drifter's Escape: The Music That Inspired Bob Dylan's 'John Wesley Harding' & 'Nashville Skyline'
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Uncut Drifter's Escape
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Greenback Dollar - The Music Of Clarence Ashley 1929-1933