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Kentucky Colonels (Musical group)

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Corporate name headingKentucky Colonels (Musical group)
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See alsoPredecessor: Country Boys
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Beginning date[1962,1963]
LocatedBurbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Field of activityBluegrass music
Found inKentucky Colonels, 1966 [SR] p1978 (a.e.) label (Kentucky Colonels) container (Clarence White, guitar; Roland White, mandolin; Eric White, bass; Dennis Morris, rhythm guitar; Bob Worford, banjo; Bobby Crane, fiddle)
Wikipedia, July 12, 2018 (Kentucky Colonels were a bluegrass band popular during the American folk music revival of the 1960s; band was founded 1954 in Burbank, California; disbanded 1965 and reformed several times with varying members)
Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2019 (In 1954, the three White brothers, Roland (mandolin), Clarence (acoustic guitar), and Eric Jr. (banjo and double bass) formed a country trio called Three Little Country Boys; the group soon switched to an entirely bluegrass repertoire; in 1957, banjoist Billy Ray Latham and Dobro player LeRoy Mack were added to the line-up, with the group renaming themselves the Country Boys soon after; appeared twice on The Andy Griffith show in 1961; between 1959 and 1962, the Country Boys released three singles on the Sundown, Republic and Briar International record labels; changed their name to the Kentucky Colonels in late 1962 or early 1963)
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