Tag Archives: The Carolina Tar Heels

Although this may be stretching the string a little tight, listeners who aren’t keen on guitar solos might hold a particular resentment because of this fellow, whose occasionally disputed historic claim to fame is having recorded among the first types of “lead” (rhymes with quickness) guitar or flat-picking in possibly …

A medicine display performer within the 1910s and 1920s, Clarence (Tom) Ashley influenced the metropolitan folk revival when his early recordings were included on the Folkways album Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952. Although he previously retired through the medicine present circuit in 1943, he produced a successful return …

The sticky symbol from the tarheel being practically a franchise within the Carolinas, it comes as no real surprise that two different old-time rings used the name Carolina Tar Heels, this later on version of the group actually forcing the very first someone to change its name to the initial …