You don’t get Tony Rice without Clarence. There’s no telling who would have been the real GOAT if Clarence had not been killed but I firmly believe it one of the two.
All these years later he’s the best flatpicker I have ever heard. Lord knows what Tony’s sound would be without have heard and met Clarence. His influence on Tony was massive and you can hear it plain as day.
God gave us recording of Clarence to give us inspiration and what we could strive for but never attain. Thank God recordings of him live on to keep us trying.
Clarence was a massive talented guitarist taken from us way too soon. Listening to him is a joy. Clarence didn’t know it at the time but that 58957 aka “the antique” is the holy grail of acoustic guitars. Every flatpicker owes a debt of gratitude to Clarence. They all learned something from him even if they weren’t influenced by him. The GOAT.
Clarence White was one of the very best. Can you imagine had he not been killed by that driver what he along with Tony,Norman and the others could have done?
People want to know where the commemorative park is where Clarence White died, loading up his guitar into the car. Ppeople want to go there or at least see it on 'street view'.
Sorry to speak heresy, but I’m not hearing what everybody’s Gaga about. Not.at.all!!! Dude’s timing sounds like he’s high AF, literally all over the place!!!! Kudos to the other guitar player and the mandolin guy (who’s otherwise also not that great!!!!) for the minor miracle of somehow keeping track of the downbeat while this guys’s playing here there and everywhere except in time! He may be “one of the greats, but this is objectively not good… (and yes! I could do better, without question.)
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer yep… risen from the dead, and now made to suffer listening to this again. Sadly it hasn’t, by some miracle, changed. I apologize again to the besotted, but this simply isn’t good guitar playing. Dude played some amazing stuff, to be sure, but not on the day of the performance in this video. It’s just bad, … as in, … not … good. … at all…
@@jamesgarfield9592 I can appreciate that I, nobody, got a reaction out of you, yet Jake Eddy, (the other person who responded) one of the greatest flatpicking and jazz guitarists of this generation, couldn't
Wow! Now that I've seen a video of Clarence playing Soldier's Joy using a capo I can understand his technique a little better. I first heard it on the Muleskinners album and tried to play it without a capo. I had it pretty much note for note and could get it up to almost 1/4 speed on a really good day. Using a capo I might be able to get it up to almost 3/8 speed on a good day!
Half the time Rowen sounds like he's singing a harmony line. I would not consider this a good vocal blend but maybe it was different live. He thinks he's Bill Monroe, now. (shakes head)
Clarence White IS bluegrass flatpicking guitar; he clearly didn't deserve the jabs and disrespect that Bob Baxter was giving him on this show (just my opinion)...
On a David Grisman and Tony Rice album, Grisman introduces I Am a Pilgrim saying they learned it from Clarence White, and the guitar that Tony is playing was once owned by Clarence. He plays out of chords a lot, similar to Doc.
@Erik Clampitt RIP Tony and Clarence. The phrasings here are so similar to what Tony did. This was rather novel in bluegrass at the time. Clarence wasn't bound by the strict limits that were placed on bluegrass guitar players back East, where guitar was strictly a rhythm accompaniment device, for the banjos and fiddles and mandolins. Guitar players got frowned at a lot. Clarence just let it sing.
@@MWSevened I’m sorry you had to lose your father in such a tragic way. He touched so many and there’s no question if his career went on longer he’d be regarded by most as one of the greatest guitar players ever. Best wishes!
He sure was! His fingers moving so cleanly over that fretboard is terrific. Glad we have of Clarence playing. He was the real deal. I’m glad Marty Stuart plays Clarence’s B Bender to this day. Sort of like Clarence is still with us ~ and of every time Marty Stuart refers to this guitar as “Clarence,” he is honoring him.
Somewhere I read an article about how Clarence and the other guy (forgive me, I forget his name) designed the B-Bender and worked it out through trial and error. It was pretty fascinating stuff. I wish I could remember where that article was.
@@johnr.8275 The "other guy" you refer to is Gene Parsons, who was in the Byrds with Clarence. Gene was a multi-instrumentalist and professional tinkerer who happened to play drums with the Byrds.
Clarence could say more with an unexpected pause in his playing than great flatpickers who play every note on the fretboard super fast. He and Charles Sawtelle were the ONLY two flatpickers whose playing brought me to TEARS, surprising and exhilarating. RIP CLARENCE AND CHARLES.
