Arkansas Traveler, The Kentucky Colonels with Clarence White

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1964. Clarence White, (b. Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 15, 1973),was an American bluegrass & country guitarist & singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels & the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s. He also worked as a session musician, appearing on recordings by the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, the Monkees, Randy Newman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt, Arlo Guthrie, & Jackson Browne among others.

Together with frequent collaborator Gene Parsons, he invented the B-Bender, a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone & emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar.

White was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2016. The LeBlanc family, who later changed their surname to White, were of French-Canadian ancestry & hailed from New Brunswick, Canada. Clarence's father, Eric LeBlanc Sr., played guitar, banjo, fiddle, & harmonica, ensuring that his offspring grew up surrounded by music.

A child prodigy, Clarence began playing guitar at the age of six. At such a young age he was barely able to hold the instrument and as a result, he briefly switched to ukulele, awaiting a time when his young hands would be big enough to confidently grapple with the guitar...
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Clarence White on guitar, Fats Domino and The Byrds, 1971.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I will have to watch tomorrow.

I’m worn slick.

[Bayard]

2. Bookmarking