Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's Part 2 is a Folkways album released as FA 2359 in 1963, continuing the field recordings made by ethnomusicologist Ralph Rinzler that introduced Doc Watson to the wider folk revival audience. Watson performs on guitar alongside Clarence "Tom" Ashley, with Clint Howard contributing guitar and vocals and Fred Price on fiddle. Watson's astonishing flat-picking technique — applied to fiddle tunes, ballads, and gospel material with equal fluency — stunned listeners accustomed to the gentler acoustic styles of the Northern folk scene. Alongside Ashley's banjo and the ensemble's deeply rooted mountain repertoire, the recordings stand as an invaluable document of southwest Virginia old-time tradition captured at a pivotal moment in American musical consciousness.
Tracklist
- 1 Free little bird
- 2 Little Sadie alt version 2:46
- 3 Way Downtown alt version 2:43
- 4 Tough luck
- 5 Hump backed mule
- 6 Daniel Prayed alt version
- 7 Walkin’ Boss alt version 5:17
- 8 My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains alt version 2:42
- 9 Coo-coo bird
- 10 Crawdad alt version
- 11 Rising sun blues
- 12 Lee Highway
- 13 Shady Grove alt version 2:59
- 14 Corinna
- 15 Omie Wise alt version 4:28
- 16 Amazing Grace alt version 2:57
