| Birth: | Jun. 7, 1944
Madawaska (Aroostook County)
Aroostook County
Maine, USA | | Death: | Jul. 15, 1973
Palmdale
Los Angeles County
California, USA | 
Musician. He began his career as bluegrass guitar flat picker performing on a local radio program with a band called the Three Little Country Boys in 1958. In late 1962, the Country Boys became the Kentucky Colonels, which played many venues until White found employment as a session guitarist in Los Angeles in the mid 1960s. There he gathered a close association with the popular folk rock group The Byrds and was their lead guitarist from 1968 until his death. He also was a co-inventor of the Parsons-White B string bender device used on Telecaster guitars. In 2003, White was ranked #41 on Rolling Stones Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and The Gibson Guitar Company ranked him at #42 on their Top 50 Guitarists of All Time list. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Killed by a drunk driver while loading music equipment into a car
Search Amazon for Clarence White | | | Burial:
Joshua Memorial Park
Lancaster
Los Angeles County
California, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Aug 27, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 11914 |
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