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Comment by Jim Morris on May 21, 2015 at 1:32am

That's excellent RTZ! I recently taught In My Hour of Darkness to a friend so we could do it at an upcoming gig and was thinkin' about Clarence White and how he and a handful of others back then made Bluegrass seem a lot cooler to many of us.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 1:29pm

They were like the Outlaw Country guys, they broke tradition and people said yes we like that. My favorites were Haggard for putting swing into country when they didn't want it and Van Zandt for songs for the bungled and botched.

Bluegrass and Folk will always be the minority of music.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 1:20pm

Thanks James

Comment by turtlehead on May 20, 2015 at 12:40pm

Back for more Muleskinner.  I discovered bluegrass through Old and In the Way, but Muleskinner came first.  Got me thinking that if it weren't for these guys and the Newgrass movement in general, bluegrass might have just faded away.  Bill Monroe is known for being a traditionalist as he should, but he should also be given credit for having Rowan, Greene and Keith in his band.  Those damn hippies kept it going for decades to come. 

Comment by James O Lunsford on May 20, 2015 at 11:18am

Nice RTZ sounds Great Man

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 7:22am

Thanks man.

White died on July 14, 1973 after being struck by a drunk driver. The accident occurred shortly after 2 a.m., while he and his brother Roland were loading equipment into their car in Palmdale, California, following a spur-of-the-moment reunion gig of the Colonels. Especially shaken by his death was Gram Parsons, who would lead a singalong of "Farther Along" at the funeral service and conceive his final song before his own death, "In My Hour of Darkness", as a partial tribute to White.

Clarence White was survived by his brothers Roland and Eric and sisters JoAnne and Rosemarie, and his one daughter, Michelle

Comment by turtlehead on May 20, 2015 at 7:12am

Nice!  Good timing, I've been listening to a lot of Muleskinner/Clarence/The Byrds this week.  He is under appreciated.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 7:06am

THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNK

I couldn't find the video from above but found this

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 6:59am

 Thanks john, wish I could expand it but not there yet. I like all Dwight's covers maybe I'll do Streets of Bakersfield soon.  I have some 6 string project I have to do but i'll keep posting.

chech out C. White

Comment by RTZGUITARS on May 20, 2015 at 6:49am

Thanks wes, they were the outlaws of bluegrass. I took a interest in Clarence after reading about him in a book amazing player taken to soon. 

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