In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White turned the wrong way and ran face-to-face into Monroe himself. Monroe ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Roland White, a mandolin player and singer who helped shape major developments in bluegrass and country-rock over a seven-decade career, died in Nashville on Friday. He was 83. His ...

"MANDOLIN MAN: THE BLUEGRASS LIFE OF ROLAND WHITE" by Bob Black (University of Illinois Press, 280 pages, $20). In "Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White," author and banjo player Bob Black ...

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Mandolinist-guitarist-vocalist Roland White’s performance Tuesday night at Viva Cantina not only marks a homecoming for the onetime Burbank resident, but also a rare local opportunity to see a ...

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It’s hard to imagine a more approachable country music legend than Roland White. A bluegrass veteran who’s been playing mandolin for more than 60 years, and who logged time with both Bill Monroe (for ...

Roland White And Friends, “A Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels”: Roland White is 80 now, still active in bluegrass, but looking back on a long career. The Kentucky Colonels, a band that featured Roland ...

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. By Bill Friskics-Warren NASHVILLE — ...

With Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White, author and banjo player Bob Black gives us a book about a musician in which the music rings out — and is never drowned out. That’s because White ...