Clint Howard and Fred Price

Clint Howard (1930 – October 16, 2011) and Fred Price (July 16, 1915 – September 13, 1987) were American old-time musicians from Mountain City, Johnson County, Tennessee. He turned professional at about twenty-two and sang lead.

Howard and Price appear on Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, Volumes 1 and 2 (Folkways Records FA 2355 and FA 2359, 1961 and 1963), reissued in 1994 as The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960–1962.

With Doc Watson the two performed widely during the 1960s, including at the Newport Folk Festival (1963), Carnegie Hall, and the University of California. The title ballad tells the story of Finley Preston, who was hanged in 1905 and is thought to have been the last man legally hanged in Tennessee.

Clint Howard continued to perform into later life. He appeared at the Smithsonian Institution, the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, and, in the 1990s and 2000s, at MerleFest, often with Doc Watson. The group is documented in Thomas G. Burton's study Tom Ashley, Sam McGee, Bukka White: Tennessee Traditional Singers.

The legacy of Howard, Price, Ashley, and Watson is commemorated in a series of murals in Mountain City known as the Musical Mural Mile. There is also a celebration each year at the town's Long Journey Home festival, whose heritage tour includes the Fred Price Homeplace. Howard and Price were also part of the Ashley group brought to urban audiences through the Friends of Old Time Music concerts in New York (1961–1965).