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Clarence White: Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Men: 1968-69

Posted by Lance Davis - October 23, 2008 - Byrds, Chris Hillman, Clarence White, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gary S. Paxton, Gene Parsons, Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendrix, Wynn Stewart
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  In July 1968, The Byrds played South Africa without Gram Parsons, who decided that shooting smack with Keith Richards was better than playing segregated Johannesburg, so he essentially fired himself. While GP’s political motives were as much expedient as heartfelt, to his credit he flew the coop on a tour that was by all […]

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Clarence White and his Transition to Telecaster: 1965-66

Posted by Lance Davis - July 28, 2008 - Byrds, Chris Hillman, Clarence White, Gene Clark, Gosdin Brothers, Hugh Masekela, James Burton
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  1965 had to be bittersweet for Clarence White and the Kentucky Colonels. In February of that year, fiddler Scotty Stoneman joined the band for a half-year stint, transforming the Colonels into perhaps the greatest bluegrass group of all-time. If Clarence and Scotty weren’t the Bird and Diz of bluegrass, they were at least its […]

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