Eric White
Musician · 1941–2012 · Madawaska, Maine
Eric White was the eldest of the three White brothers (with mandolinist Roland and guitarist Clarence) — bassist and tenor banjoist in the original Country Boys / Kentucky Colonels and a 2019 IBMA Hall of Fame inductee posthumously honored alongside his brothers.
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- Eric White Jr. — eldest of the three White brothers (with mandolinist Roland and guitarist Clarence); family was French-Canadian, surname changed from LeBlanc to White.
- Born in Lewiston, Maine, July 9, 1942; died in 2012 on what would have been Clarence's birthday.
- Founding member, with his brothers, of the Three Little Country Boys (1954) — playing tenor banjo and double bass — which became The Country Boys and then The Kentucky Colonels.
- Played upright bass and tenor banjo in the original Country Boys lineup (with Billy Ray Latham and LeRoy Mack) until summer 1961, when he left to get married and Roger Bush replaced him on bass.
- Reunited with Clarence and Roland in a short-lived 1966–67 second Kentucky Colonels lineup, and again in 1973 as The New Kentucky Colonels (with Herb Pedersen on banjo) for the tour cut short by Clarence's death.
- Filled in on bass with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys at one show on May 13, 1967.
- The Kentucky Colonels were inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame in 2019, posthumously honoring all three White brothers.
