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 – Roland White, age 83, passed away April 1, 2022 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee following complications of a heart attack. Roland was born April 23, 1938 in ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...