CLINT HOWARD :: LEGENDARY OLD-TIME MUSICIAN AND SINGER
Clint Howard brought Amazing Grace to the general public in 1961 with Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, and has been a professional musician ever since. But Clint is also a Roads Commissioner in his native Tennessee, and a man wealthy in family, land, livestock and joy, living on the piece of land he grew up on.
He was 'discovered' in 1960 by Ralph Rinzler, a Harvard graduate turned amateur ethnomusicologist, at a music contest in Tennessee. And half of the acclaimed recording "Old Time at Clarence Ashley's," (now released on CD as Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley) featured Clint on lead, and much of the recording was done at Clint's home in Mountain City, Tennessee.
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Clint Howard's own band’s style of music holds firmly to an old-time mountain style. The instrumental approach taken by the musicians is to keep things pretty close to the ground: nowhere is the sound overwhelmed by extraneous licks or anything that would throw them out of balance. There is a gentleness to their style, the singing is straightforward, plaintive and true.
It was back in the early 1960’s when Clint Howard first came to the attention of folks outside his home region. During that period, as he traveled and recorded with Clarence "Tom" Ashley , Fred Price, Doc Watson and others, making friends and developing fans in all parts of the country, his records from that period of time still sell thousands of copies per year.
For more information, please visit www.clinthoward.org
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