The Kentucky Colonels - Los Angeles Breakdown (2022) Hi-Res

The Kentucky Colonels were a bluegrass band that was popular during the American folk music revival of the early 1960s. The Kentucky Colonels, an early 1960s bluegrass group that helped to introduce the genre to a new generation, featured three siblings: mandolin player Roland White, who later played with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys and Lester Flatt’s Nashville Grass; guitarist Clarence White, who went on to membership in the Byrds from 1968 until his death in 1973; and banjo and double bass player Eric White. Formed in Burbank, California in 1954, the group released two albums, The New Sound of Bluegrass America (1963) and Appalachian Swing! (1964). The band featured the influential bluegrass guitarist Clarence White, who was largely responsible for making the acoustic guitar a lead instrument within bluegrass, and who later went on to join the Los Angeles rock band the Byrds. The Kentucky Colonels disbanded in late 1965, with two short-lived reunions taking place in 1966 and 1973.