| LC control no. | no 96008778 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ashley, Clarence, 1895-1967 |
| Variant(s) | Ashley, Tom, 1895-1967 Ashley, Thomas Clarence, 1895-1967 McCurry, Clarence Earl, 1895-1967 Brown, Oscar, 1895-1967 Hutchinson, Tom, 1895-1967 |
| See also | Corporate body: Carolina Tar Heels |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Mountain City (Tenn.) |
| Birth date | 1895-09-29 |
| Death date | 1967-06-02 |
| Place of birth | Bristol (Va.) |
| Place of death | Winston-Salem (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Old-time music |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Banjoists Guitarists |
| Found in | Watson, D. The original Folkways recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962, p1994: label (Clarence Ashley) insert (Clarence "Tom" Ashley; b. Sept. 29, 1895, Bristol, Tenn., d. July 2, 1967; banjo and vocals) Ashley, C. Clarence Ashley and Tex Isley [SR] 1966: label (Clarence Ashley) insert (Thomas Clarence Ashley, vocals, banjo & guitar; b. Sept. 29, 1895, Bristol, TN) Oxford music online, August 1, 2017: Grove dictionary of American music, 2nd edition (Ashley, Thomas C. (Ashley, Clarence Tom; Ashley, Clarence; McCurry, Clarence Earl; Tom); born September 29, 1895, Bristol, VA; died June 2, 1967, Winston-Salem, NC; American banjoist, guitarist, and singer; raised primarily by his maternal grandparents and adopted their surname, Ashley, as his own; member of the Carolina Tar Heels) Encyclopedia of popular music (Ashley, Clarence Tom; born Clarence Earl McCurry, September 29, 1895, Bristol, Tennessee; died June 2, 1967, USA; after the family relocated to Mountain City, in eastern Tennessee, he was raised by his grandfather, Enoch Ashley, and legally assumed his grandfather's surname; singer, guitarist, and banjo player) Tom Ashley, Sam McGee, Bukka White, Tennessee traditional singers, c1981: page 22-24 (Thomas Clarence Ashley; born Clarence Earl McCurry, September 29, 1895, Bristol, Virginia; died June 1967, North Carolina; raised primarily by his maternal grandparents in Shouns, Tennessee; used the name Thomas Clarence Ashley, signing as Thomas C. Ashley or Tom C. Ashley, and known locally as Tom Ashley; record labels show various combinations of his given names, as well as the use of pseudonyms Oscar Brown and Tom Hutchinson; recorded "The coo coo bird" in 1929) page 216 (recordings on the Challenge label as by Tom Hutchinson, on the Champion label as by Oscar Brown) Wikipedia, August 1, 2017 (Clarence Ashley; Clarence "Tom" Ashley; born Clarence Earl McCurry, September 29, 1895, Bristol, Tennessee; died June 2, 1967, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; American musician and singer, who played the clawhammer banjo and the guitar) |
| Invalid LCCN | no 00083567 |
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