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When he was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2017, Roland White’s plaque proclaimed him “a true mandolin stylist and a kind and generous mentor.” Those sentiments and more rang around Nashville over the weekend after news broke that White had died on Friday at age 83, following a serious heart attack days before.
A mandolin player and singer, he made his mark with the Country Boys (later renamed the Kentucky Colonels), and his influence extended into the rock of the ’60s.
There are not many sectors of bluegrass music that weren't at one point or another touched by the work of mandolin player Roland White. The brother of fellow