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Clarence White
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 14, 1973), was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band The Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s.〔 White also worked extensively 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, and Jackson Browne amongst others. He was also an innovator and inventor, known for modifying his instruments to achieve particular sounds. Together with frequent collaborator Gene Parsons, he invented the B-Bender.
==Early years==
Clarence Joseph LeBlanc was born on June 7, 1944 in Lewiston, Maine.〔 The LeBlanc family, who later changed their surname to White, were of French-Canadian ancestry and hailed from New Brunswick, Canada.〔 Clarence's father, Eric LeBlanc, Sr., played guitar, banjo, fiddle, and 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.〔
In 1954, when Clarence was ten, the White family relocated to Burbank, California and soon after, Clarence joined his brothers Roland and Eric Jr. (who played mandolin and banjo respectively) in a trio called Three Little Country Boys.〔 The family group was occasionally augmented by the brother's sister Joanne on double bass.〔〔 Although they initially started out playing contemporary country music, the group soon switched to a purely bluegrass repertoire, as a result of Roland White's burgeoning interest in the genre.〔 Early on, the group won a talent contest on radio station KXLA in Pasadena and by 1957, they had managed to attract the interest of country guitarist Joe Maphis.〔 With Maphis's help, the Three Little Country Boys made several appearances on the popular television program ''Town Hall Party''.〔
In 1957, banjoist Billy Ray Latham and Dobro player LeRoy Mack were added to the line-up,〔 with the band renaming themselves the Country Boys soon after.〔 By 1961, the quartet had become well known enough to appear twice on the ''The Andy Griffith Show''.〔 That same year the Country Boys also added Roger Bush on double bass, as a replacement for Eric White, Jr., who had left the band to get married.〔 Between 1959 and 1962, the Country Boys released three singles on the Sundown, Republic and Briar International record labels.
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