Hutchings was natural inside Southgate, London but moved to Muswell Hill while still the tyke. He formed many groups, including "Dr K's Blues Band" inside 1964. Whilst he met guitar player Simon Nicol, it rehearsed on the floor above Nicol's father's medical practice. A home was known as "Fairport" & lent its title to the class action it formed together.

Hutchings has quite even founded more groups than any other bass-player. A best known come Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span (formed after he left Fairport inside 1970) & a ever-changing Albion Country Band (formed after allowing Steeleye inside 1971). He hwhen mass produced many thematic albums sustaining session musicians deepened from either through a traditional & folk-rock spectrum, by having himself credited as a producer. A series of albums known as ''The Guv'nor collect rare recordings from several Hutchings-related groups. Around 2004 Hutchings retired the Albion b& and within 2005 he returned when a portion of a quartet, known as Rainbow Chasers.

Burning Bright (2005) occurs as boxed placed of foursome Videos, by using numerous uncommon & antecedently unreleased recordings.

Discography
Fairport Convention
See Fairport Convention

Steeleye Span
See Steeleye Span

Albion Band
Battle of the Field (1976) The Prospect Before Us (1977) Rise Up Like the Sun (1978) The BBC Sessions (1978) Lark Rise to Candleford (1980) Light Shining (1982) Shuffle Off (1983) Under the Rose (1984) Stella Maris (1987) Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival (1987) Give Me A Saddle I'll Trade You A Car (1989) The Best of 1989/90 (1990) In Concert (1993) Acousticity (1993) Captured (1994) Albion Heart (1995) Demi Paradise (1996) The Acoustic Years 1993 - 1997 (1997) Happy Accident (1998) Before Us Stands Yesterday (1999) Christmas Album (2000) The HDT Years (2000) An Evening With (2002) An Albion Christmas (2003)

Albion Morris
Still Dancing After All These Years (2003)

Ashley Hutchings and Albion Band
No Surrender (2003)

Ashley Hutchings as producer and bass-player
Morris On (1971) The Complete Dancing Master (1974) Son of Morris On (1976) Rattlebone and Ploughjack (1976) Kicking Up the Sawdust (1977) An Hour With Cecil Sharp (1986) By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept (1987) The Guv'nor vol 1 (1993) A Batter Pudding for John Keats (1996) A Guv'nor vol Deuce (1997) A Guv'nor vol Triad (1999) A Guv'nor vol Quartet (1999) Folk Aerobics (2001) Over the Downs (2001) The Ridgeriders (2001) Street Cries (2001) A Guv'nor vol Little phoebe (2002) Grandson of Morris On (2002) Human Nature? (2003) As I Cycled Out One May Morning (2003) Great Grandson of Morris On (2004) Burning Bright (2005) (box placed)

Ashley Hutchings with John Kirkpatrick
The Compleat Dancing Master'' (1974)