Clancy Fields

The Fields Brothers released a single on the Starr label in 1972, “Outlaw” backed with “Is There a Love Left for Me,” and then two albums for Jessup. On Waiting and Wondering (1973) Clancy played bass behind Bennie’s guitar, with Dave Clark on banjo and Curtis Beck on Dobro and fiddle, and the brothers traded lead and tenor parts; most of the songs were Bennie’s, and Clancy wrote “Fallin’ Teardrops.” On Sing of Old Kentucky and West Virginia (1974) both brothers played guitar, Bennie singing lead and Clancy tenor, with Tom Dew on banjo, Orville Dingess on bass and Beck again on fiddle and Dobro, on songs such as “Ruby” and “Willow’s Garden.” In 1979 he shared the billing with Hud Haley on Ramblin’ Fever, an LP on the Rome label.

When the banjo player and singer Dave Evans moved to Rebel, Fields was his guitarist. Goin’ Round This World was recorded at Riverside Sound Studios in Ashland, Kentucky, with Larry Johnson on mandolin, Tommy Cordell on fiddle and Kevin Williamson on bass; Evans sang the lead verses and the tenor on the choruses, Fields the lead on the choruses and Williamson the baritone. Its songs include Woody Guthrie’s “Pastures of Plenty,” “You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way” and “Somebody Loves You Darling.” On two of its twelve tracks, Evans’s “You’ll Never Walk the Streets of Gold” and “One Loaf of Bread,” Landon Messer plays the guitar and sings the chorus lead instead.