Clint Howard received a huge ovation at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and appeared on nearly a dozen albums. Yet he hardly lived a showbiz lifestyle; he raised his children as a welder and small-time farmer growing corn and beans and raising cattle. He hailed from the richly musical Mountain City area of Tennessee, deep in the heart of the Appalachians, and was most widely known through his association with one of that area's superstars of folk and old-time music, Doc Watson. Both Howard's mother and father sang old-time ballads of the type William Clinton Howard would eventu...