The Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were an American bluegrass band that was popular during the American folk music revival of the early 1960s. Formed in Burbank, California in 1954, the group released two albums, The New Sound of Bluegrass America (1963) and Appalachian Swing! (1964). The band featured the influential bluegrass guitarist Clarence White, who was largely responsible for making the acoustic guitar a lead instrument within bluegrass, and who later went on to join the Los Angeles rock band the Byrds. The Kentucky Colonels disbanded in late 1965, with two short-lived reunions taking place in 1966 and 1973.
Genre: bluegrass, southern-gospel, newgrass, christian-country
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Top Tracks
- Roll on Buddy
- Soldier's Joy
- Footprints In the Snow
- Roll On Buddy - Live
- Footprints In The Snow
- Chicken Reel
- Roll on Buddy
- Chicken Reel
- Beaumont Rag
- Chicken Reel
- Chicken Reel
- In the Pines
- Lonesome Road Blues
- Over In Glory Land
- Over In the Glory Land
- In the Pines
- Get Down On Your Knees And Pray - Live
- Old Hickory
- Chicken Reel
- Shuckin' the Corn
Albums (32)
- 1966 (2023)
- Raise the Roof: Country Bands (2023)
- Los Angeles Breakdown (2022)
- Great Country & Bluegrass Mandolin (2015)
- The Greatest Bluegrass Gospel (2014)
- Bluegrass From the Farm (2014)
- Country Rags and Reels (2014)
- The Greatest Bluegrass Artists (2014)
- Hits of Bluegrass (2013)
- The Great Bill Monroe Covers (2013)
- Pickin' and Grinnin' (2013)
- Rambling Fever: Country Music Hits the Road (2013)
- Golden Bluegrass (2013)
- Appalachian Swing! (2013)
- Golden Country Gospel (2013)
- Bluegrass Royalty (2013)
- Best of the Bluegrass Bands (2012)
- The Reel Thing (2012)
- Bluegrass Blues (2012)
- Bluegrass Instrumentals (2012)
- Bluegrass Ballads (2012)
- Bush, Lathum, White (2011)
- Long Journey Home (2006)
- Bluegrass X-Mas (2005)
- Southern Country Gospel (1998)
- Vanguard Newport Folk Festival Samplers (1996)
- Son Of Rounder Banjo (1992)
- 1965 Live in L.A. (1978)
- Livin' in the Past (1975)
- Livin' In The Past (Extended) (1975)
- The New Sound of Bluegrass America (1963)
- The New Sound of Bluegrass America - featuring Clarence White, Gordon Terry, Roger Bush, LeRoy Mack and Billy Ray Lathum (1970)
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