Clarence White: Bringing It All Back Home: 1973

Posted by Lance Davis - May 27, 2011 - Arlo Guthrie, Byrds, Clarence White, Country Gazette, Emmylou Harris, Gene Parsons, Gram Parsons, Kentucky Colonels, Muleskinner, New Kentucky Colonels, Roland White, Tony Rice, White Brothers

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“Dry your eyes and stand up straight Bugler’s got a place at the Pearly Gates Say goodbye sugar Oh, say goodbye” And so we come to the final year of Clarence White’s life and the eleventh and final (for now) chapter of my Adios Loungeography. I’ve put off this part of his bio for as […]

Clarence White: Farther Along: 1971

Posted by Lance Davis - January 29, 2010 - Arlo Guthrie, Byrds, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Kentucky Colonels, Paul Siebel, Roger McGuinn, Terry Melcher

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The Byrds entered 1971 heading in opposite directions. As a live unit, there’s no question that the band was at its career apex. The Clarence White-Gene Parsons-Skip Battin rhythm section was massive. If anything, Roger McGuinn was the musical weak link, a disturbing trend that would replicate itself in the studio. I will diatribe later […]

Clarence White: Easy Ridin’ in ’69

Posted by Lance Davis - December 18, 2008 - Arlo Guthrie, Byrds, Clarence White, Everly Brothers, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gene Parsons, Gib Guilbeau, Johnny Darrell, Kentucky Colonels, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, The Reasons, Wynn Stewart

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For Clarence White, 1969 began with the release of his first album as a member of The Byrds, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde, and ended with the release of that album’s follow-up, Ballad Of Easy Rider. In between, the band played over 70 dates throughout the US, many of those gigs featuring multiple sets (early […]

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 […]

Clarence White: From Bakersfield To Byrdland: 1967-68

Posted by Lance Davis - September 5, 2008 - Bakersfield International, Byrds, Clarence White, Gary S. Paxton, Gene Parsons, Gosdin Brothers, Sierra Records, The Reasons, Wynn Stewart

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“To have been a Renaissance Hillbilly in Hollywood in the 1960s would have been great for me. I could have hung out with Leo Fender, Buck Owens and Don Rich, Moon (Ralph Mooney), Merle (Haggard) and Roy Nichols. Gone to check out Wynn Stewart recording at Capitol or witnessed Johnny Cash, Joe Maphis, and Merle […]