Sep 7, 2025
Buck White and John Pierce
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Buck White and John Pierce
Buck White has died. The founder of the country/bluegrass group The Whites was 94.
In 1978 Buck White And the Down Home Folks released Poor Folks Pleasure. Many times my Dad mentioned eating a watermelon right in the field like that picture. Or stealing one. He said they were always the best.
Enjoy!
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This is one great album! I guess you’d say that Red likes the KISS procedure for his music. Keep It Simple Stupid. Down the middle of the road bluegrass. Red shows off his mandolin picking and also plays some lead guitar on two songs.
Red Rector, guitar, mandolin Vic Jordan, banjo Buck White, guitar, mandolin Cheryl White, bass Doug Green, guitar
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This is another Doug Green album from 1972. Liza Jane & Sally Anne, which happen to be the names of fiddle tunes and the names of his daughters. Here is a little clip from the back of the album cover.
Bill Monroe on Stage at BeanBlossom 1967.
“I guess since I've been in this kind of work I have tried out more people and worked more people than anybody in the country. A lot of times we'd go on the stage and do a number for the first time. We'd never probably done it before. And this kid here; I've never sung with him before, I don't believe. This is a hard number coming up."The audience laughs as Bill, with a subtle grin on his face, pauses to tune his rnandolin. "It's entitled ‘The Walls Of Time."’ He tunes a little more. "I haven't sung it since Pete Rowan was with me; and he was a good singer." The praise for the earlier Blue Grass Boy is understated but definite; and the challenge to the newcomer is implicit.
At the conclusion, some three minutes later, applause and cheering fill the Jamboree barn.
“Well, that"s the way Blue Grass music has gone for the last twenty-seven years. There's people right out through the country and different cities that can come right in and work as a Blue Grass man. Doug, that was a good job there, I'll have to give you credit; you did a good job."
Well Doug's love of all music has taken him on a long trip since that day. I've never met him but I'd bet my last dollar that he is just as great and nice a guy as his on stage persona.
Search the bins at your local record store for a copy of this great album.
Here's another gospel tune, this time by Buck White and the Down Home Folks. This is their version of the popular Hank Williams song "House Of Gold". On this 1978 vinyl record they used some very pretty pictures, the front has them barefooted eating a broken watermelon and on the back they are walking horses up a stream. They went on to be known as the Whites. My preference was their early days and the bluegrass instruments with Jack Hicks on banjo and sometimes Skaggs and Douglas on fiddle and dobro.
Stop down at the old record store and pick up a copy of this old black vinyl.
