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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Clarence White
Clarence and Roland's father, Eric Sr., was one of 17 children, so the boys frequently visited with numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Clarence picked up guitar from many sources, Roland says, and made small breakthroughs, such as seeing the guitarist with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys play with a capo, which "really opened his eyes to what the guitar could do." Continuing the family band they'd had in Maine, Clarence, Roland and youngest brother Eric Jr.
Suddenly, Clarence White had become an extraordinary flatpicking guitarist.
www.flatpick.com /Pages/Featured_Artist/clarence.html   (3055 words)

  
  Inductee Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clarence White has been described by photo historian Naomi Rosenblum as the one who may be considered the archetypal Pictorialist photographer of the United States.
Clarence Hudson White was born on April 8, 1871 in West Carlisle, Ohio.
However, it was White’s participation in the exhibition at the Philadelphia Photographic Salon in 1898 that won him national recognition.
www.iphf.org /inductees/cwhite.html   (1169 words)

  
  Inside Clarence White's Telecaster Photo Gallery by James V. Roy at pbase.com
Inside Clarence White's Telecaster Photo Gallery by James V. Roy at pbase.com
Master Builder Mark Kendrick disassembles Clarence White's Telecaster, now owned and played by Marty Stuart, as a demonstration on how he spec a guitar at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, TN July 2001
Clarence White and Gene Parsons developed the first Bender
www.pbase.com /jroy/inside_clarence_whites_telecaster   (301 words)

  
 Photos from the Clarence H. White School (December 2001) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
White's first instructor for art appreciation and design between 1914 and 1918 was avant-garde painter Max Weber, who often posed for the students.
After Clarence White's unexpected death in 1925, friends urged his widow to carry on despite the fact that his personality had been crucial to the advancement of the school.
Though Jane Felix White was not a photographer herself, she took on the challenge and remained the school's director until her retirement in 1940, when her youngest son, Clarence H. White Jr., took over.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0112/white.html   (3865 words)

  
 Clarence White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
White's association with the Byrds began in earnest in 1966, when he contributed his distinctive playing to former member Gene Clark's solo album ''Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers''; he and Gene Parsons briefly joined Clark's touring band shortly thereafter.
White was killed on July 14, 1973 by a drunken driver while loading his equipment in his car following a spur-of-the moment reunion gig with the Colonels.
Clarence White almost single-handedly legitimized the acoustic guitar as a lead instrument in bluegrass.
www.artistopia.com /clarence-white   (1196 words)

  
 Clarence White In the Maiking by Russell Tanoue
Clarence White In the Maiking by Russell Tanoue
Clarence first was exposed to the industry through a modeling school and was noticed by luck.
Clarence, an aspiring model and actor shot his theatrical headshots and body shot.
www.russelltanoue.com /clarence_white_in_the_maiking_.htm   (275 words)

  
 Clarence White - Biography - AOL Music
Clarence White was a gifted guitarist who was one of the pioneers of country-rock in the late '60s.
Clarence left the Colonels in the mid-'60s, becoming a session musician; he played electric guitar on many rock and pop albums.
White was invited to join the Byrds in the fall of 1968.
music.aol.com /artist/clarence-white/706/biography   (500 words)

  
 Jonathan and David's Clarence White Page
Clarence White is one of the greatest guitarists ever, yet is probably one of the least known.
Clarence White was born in Lewiston, Maine on June 7, 1944.
Clarence was now free to concentrate on his new found love of the electric guitar.
byrds.churchyear.net /white.html   (1598 words)

  
 Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography
Although Clarence White is acknowledged as a master of fine art photography, his most significant contribution to the history of photography—his teaching—is less well known.
White was one of the founding members of the "Photo-Secession," a group begun in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz.
While White remained rooted in pictorialism, his emphasis on design and his inspirational teaching encouraged many students to embrace the new modernist vision of the 1920s and the 1930s.
www.psu.edu /dept/palmermuseum/past/pictorialism/pictorialism.html   (603 words)

  
 Clarence White, With the Kentucky Colonels: 1954-1965
Clarence White was born June 7, 1944 in Madawaska, Maine.
Most importantly, Clarence began to see that even in the context of a bluegrass group, his guitar could be a lead instrument.
Clarence White's guitar technique on the Weissberg and World Pacific records had attracted notice, as did the Colonels' appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where Clarence and Doc Watson put on a guitar workshop together.
ebni.com /byrds/memcw1.html   (1497 words)

  
 Roland White's Bluegrass Mandolin: CD Sales
Clarence made this to give to some students and friends who wanted to learn from his playing.
This is a 3-minute color home movie made in 1957 or 58 of members of the White family at a picnic, playing music.
Would likely only be of interest to fans who want a glimpse of the White Brothers as teenagers--doesn't contain any particularly instructive content, except that you can see how Clarence's hands worked on the guitar at the age of about 13.
www.rolandwhite.com /order.htm   (448 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: WHITE, Clarence Hudson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An American, Clarence White began his career as a book-keeper, but a few years later took up photography.
Clarence White's portraits and landscapes showing a particular interest in chiaoscuro (the technique of representing three dimensions by carefully using light and shadow).
White was one of the photographers promoted by Stieglitz as the 'Photo-Secession', exhibiting his work in their exhibitions and publishing it in Camera Work - including a whole issue in 1908.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/white.htm   (215 words)

  
 Welcome to the "Unofficial" Collings Clarence White Guitar Web Site!
If you have photos of your Collings Clarence White guitar, I would like to include them on the web site as well as list your guitars data.
As some of you may or may not know that the last Collings "Clarence White" guitar built by Collings was constructed in April of 2000.
If you are interested in purchasing a classic Collings Clarence White, please contact me and I'll put you on the "want one" list and put you in touch when someone contacted me looking to sell their CW.
www.daviddugas.com   (699 words)

  
 Fender Players Club - Clarence White
Influenced by Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, White began his career playing bluegrass and country with his brother Roland in their bands the Country Boys and the Kentucky Colonels, before moving into session work in the mid ‘60s.
Also influenced by British rock bands of that time, White found his talents in demand with the hitmaking folk-rock band the Byrds at the same time their personnel lineup was falling apart.
Tragically, at the very peak of the country-rock scene he had helped create, Clarence White was killed by a drunk driver while loading his car after a gig in California in July, 1973.
www.fenderplayersclub.com /artists_lounge/hall_of_legends/white.htm   (412 words)

  
 Clarence White
Clarence was truly a virtuoso on both a
"Nashville West Featuring Clarence White" (1997) - Recorded by Gene Parsons in 1967 at El Monte's Nashville West Club, this recording was originally intended for practice purposes only...amazing electric guitar work from Clarence using string-bender device he had co-developed with Parsons.
Clarence White's Footprints on the Records - You gotta check out the "Clarence White Chronicles"...Etsuo Eito from Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, has done a wonderful job compiling the most interesting and informative facts you'll find anywhere about Clarence White.
www.classicwebs.com /white_c.htm   (688 words)

  
 Clarence White: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Though this is by no means the best of Clarence White's guitar work -- or even necessarily the best of his session work from 1966-1968 -- it's an important document of no less than 26 rare tracks predating his joining the Byrds.
This video combines rare footage of Clarence White and Gram Parsons from two separate performances, not playing together, but performing with other musicians in two very different contexts.
The Clarence White part is in much better audiovisual quality, presenting a 25-minute color episode of the television program Guitar Workshop, which spotlighted White as the featured guest.
www.music.com /person/clarence_white/1   (414 words)

  
 Clarence White & the Kentucky Colonels - Clarence White - Music Reviews
Following the unexpected death of guitar great Clarence White in 1973 at the age of only 29, Rounder proceeded to judiciously examine a number of live recordings made during his years with the Kentucky Colonels.
One particular surprise is Clarence's solo interpretation of the old standard "When You're Smiling," which is hardly a typical song on a bluegrass album.
Clarence White & the Kentucky Colonels by Clarence White!
www.mp3.com /albums/83939/reviews.html   (430 words)

  
 Clarence White bio- and discography
Clarence was like a security blanket when you were on stage with him.
Clarence was solid as a rock when he took off on an intro or solo ride.
Clarence was a close friend and I still miss him after all these years since his death.
members.chello.at /bluegrass.newgrass/clarencewhite.htm   (733 words)

  
 Clarence White biography - Part 5
Clarence had never played at a bluegrass festival before Indian Springs, and he knew that many people in that audience would be listening for him to play lead guitar, as only he could play it.
Clarence was very much impressed and touched by the crowd response and the reception given to him and the New Kentucky Colonels.
Clarence got a recording contract with "Warner Bros." to do three solo albums, in which he had a free hand to express the greatness he had inside him for music, musicians and arrangements.
members.chello.at /bluegrass.newgrass/afterthebyrds.htm   (2654 words)

  
 discography Clarence White
Note: Clarence White participation needs to be confirmed, as he receives no credits on the album cover.
Note: A Clarence White is credited with keyboards but it is not clear whether or not it is "the" Clarence White.
The Kentucky Colonels: Clarence White and The Kentucky Colonels
users.skynet.be /fa388247/discowhite2.htm   (3726 words)

  
 Twangzine - Clarence White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clarence White was one of the Greatest Guitar pickers who ever lived, as well as one of the all around nicest Human Beings to walk the earth.
Nashville West featured Clarence White on Guitar, Gene Parsons on drums and vocals, Gib Guilbeau on rythm guitar and lead vocals and Wayne Moore on electric bass.
Recorded before Clarence started using the String bender, This CD is a look back at a true guitar genius.
www.twangzine.net /rev/rev-Nashwest.html   (466 words)

  
 Clarence White, With the Kentucky Colonels: 1954-1965
Clarence White was born June 7, 1944 in Madawaska, Maine.
That same year, Roland White, the oldest of the brothers, heard "Pike County Breakdown" by Bill Monroe and quickly became a bluegrass fanatic.
After the release of the LP, the Colonels embarked on a tour of the East that lasted much of the summer.
www.ebni.com /byrds/memcw1.html   (1497 words)

  
 Clarence H White ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Coining the term 'white collar' in the early 1950s, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills provided a trope for an emerging 20th century middle class keeping its hands clean as it toiled behind desks in the banal working environments of the indu...
Katrine Hjelde: White Hjelde is a painter and site-specific installation artist whose work looks at notions of architectural and conceptual space.
As a consequence, the reconstruction of the space of theshop, with its white walls, looks like an ironical reproduction of the white cube and hints at a criticism of the museum and its authority.
www.wwar.com /masters/w/white-clarence_h.html   (2264 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/clarencewhite
On the first disc (Rural Rhythm/Sierra Records release and on this Collectors Edition) Clarence is featured on recordings from the Spring of 1964, made within weeks of the now famous "Appalachian Swing" sessions.
This is followed by three examples of Clarence's guitar instruction tape that he made for his guitar students.
You hear Clarence play a flatpick tune, slowed down, as he picks it note for note then the same tune at "normal" speed.
www.myspace.com /clarencewhite   (1022 words)

  
 YouTube - clarence white
I think you mean that you used to see Nashville West, but this is the Byrds, after NW broke up and Clarence and Gene joined the Byrds (late '68).
Clarence had a goatee and more of a rock look by then as did Gene Parsons (drummer)They seem to be fresh out of Bakersfield in this clip (Nashville West)
Clarence is the king....I swear the bloke in the vest/yellow shirt doing the funky dancing is the same guy that was a dancer/extra on "Laugh-In" during the "cocktail party" segment.
youtube.com /?v=m37-2eB-wj8   (300 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tuff and Stringy Sessions 1966-68: Music: Clarence White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Forward from Michelle White Bledsoe is quite moving, and Alec Palao's liner notes beatifully evoke this transitional period.
I mean -some of it isn't the best of Clarence White granted but, for most people who are just starting their Clarence White experience they will hear just how versatile he was and what was going on around him from 67 -72.
A truly unsatisfying release obviously with no care taken in all aspects (performance, sound, etc.) to the great talent that was Clarence White.
www.amazon.com /Stringy-Sessions-1966-68-Clarence-White/dp/B00008IUWD   (1265 words)

  
 Welcome to the "Unofficial" Collings Clarence White Guitar Web Site!
If you have photos of your Collings Clarence White guitar, I would like to include them on the web site as well as list your guitars data.
As some of you may or may not know that the last Collings "Clarence White" guitar built by Collings was constructed in April of 2000.
If you are interested in purchasing a classic Collings Clarence White, please contact me and I'll put you on the "want one" list and put you in touch when someone contacted me looking to sell their CW.
www.larp.com /ddugas   (687 words)

  
 Interview with Clarence White - Milk
The Blurb's Stephen Vagg spoke to its producer and director Clarence White about play.
Milk is the first play from Rowan Ellis, whom White knew from the Ensemble Theatre where they had both studied acting.
After the reading, White approached Ellis with a view to putting on the work.
www.theblurb.com.au /Issue28/ClarenceWhiteInt.htm   (387 words)

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