found: 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)
found: 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)
found: 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)
found: 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)
found: 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)
