Clarence White
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Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 - July 15, 1973) was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer.
White is best known as a member of the Kentucky Colonels and the Byrds, as well as being a pioneer of the country rock style in the 1960s.
Gene Parsons, a frequent collaborator, created the B-Bender, a guitar piece that helps a player bend the B-string up a whole tone and mimic the sound of a pedal steel guitar.
In 2016, White was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame.
Early years
Clarence Joseph LeBlanc was born on June 7, 1944 in Lewiston, Maine. The LeBlanc family, who later changed their surname to White, was of French-Canadian descent and hailing from New Brunswick, Canada. Eric LeBlanc, Sr., clarence's father, played guitar, banjo, fiddle, and harmonica, ensuring that his offspring grew up surrounded by music. Clarence, a six-year-old boy, first started playing guitar at the age of six. He was barely able to hold the instrument at that young age, and as a result, he briefly switched to ukulele, awaiting a day when his young hands would be strong enough to grapple with the guitar.
When Clarence was ten, the White family moved to Burbank, California, and immediately after, Clarence joined Roland and Eric Jr. (who played mandolin and banjo respectively) in a group called Three Little Country Boys. Although they first started playing contemporary country music, the group quickly moved to a strictly bluegrass repertoire as a result of Roland's burgeoning interest in the subject.
Billy Ray Latham and LeRoy Mack, a banjoist from 1957, were welcomed to the team, with the band renaming themselves the Country Boys shortly after. Clarence and other Country Boys members appeared on two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show in 1961, as a replacement for Eric White, Jr. The company released three singles on the Sundown, Republic, and Briar International record labels between 1959 and 1962.