Tulsa County/ Clarence White

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 24 Jul 2011 3:44 pm

Tulsa County Blue from the Ballad Of Easy Rider album was always one of my favorite Clarence White tracks. Here's a live version with Jon York singing lead. Audo only.
http://youtu.be/SVoMt2UqPFU

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 29 Jul 2011 10:28 pm

Thanks, Dave. This made me me listen to the Easy Rider record again, haven't heard it for years!

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 30 Jul 2011 11:20 pm

Tulsa County by Anita Carter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PughDzjR6po

Tulsa County by Jesse 'Ed' Davis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAP9L8-gHE

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 31 Jul 2011 9:25 am

Joachim, cool, I hadn't heard those other versions. The Byrds Ballad Of Easy Rider Tulsa County track is one of my all time favorite Clarence tracks. On the re-issue CD of "Ballad" they have an alternate version with Jon York singing with an additional verse and no fiddle. Makes Clarences parts even more out front.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 1 Aug 2011 11:19 am

Thanks Dave, for keeping a great song from a great band, alive, and in the world's face.

And thanks, too, Yoachim for those links. Both renditions are surely different from one another; as well as from the Byrd's version.
Really liked Anita's version. Can't believe all those Carter gals are gone. Sad.

Was surprised, too, to see the song was written by a female, Pamela Polland. Guess, cuz I first heard it by the Byrds. Pamela has quite a musical track record for herself, too.

"BOER" never got great ratings; but is right at the top of MY 'fave' list. "Oil In My Lamp", too.

OK, guys. You know me.
Just for the record:

Tulsa County - http://picosong.com/hgA
Oil In My Lamp - http://picosong.com/RYi

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 12 Aug 2011 12:36 pm

John York doing great harmony vocals on This Wheels On Fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxdMqiKI ... re=related

Will Houston · Post by **Will Houston** » 12 Aug 2011 4:40 pm

Nice one Joachim, great find, don't think I ever saw York except on the album cover. You are right nice harmony's. This also led me to some other Byrd and DRB utubes. Great stuff.

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 16 Aug 2011 1:12 am

Thanks for posting Joachim. Led me to this one from the same shoot. A little surreal having The Byrds at The Playboy Mansion for an after hours party, but maybe the best footage I've seen of Clarence on his B Bender.
http://youtu.be/Q21BF38W3Gs

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 9 Oct 2022 8:22 pm

This one came up dredging the Music section for bender-related threads to move over to Almost a Steel Guitar.

I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I was at one of the FBB/Byrds shows at Boston Tea Party in February of '69. They were there for a few days, not sure if that was the night I was there or not. I was in Boston from Amherst visiting family. Whatever, it was totally mind-bending for me - I was expecting more or less like this show I was at - Curry Hicks Cage at UMass Amherst in February '68 -

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/sea ... :ns064g52d

https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/zo ... 8-b02-i130

Gram but no Clarence. My first exposure to the Byrds. Any of you Western Mass guys at this show? Doug? I was pretty young, and I biked to and from the show from our place in North Amherst. No streetcars like in Boston.

Anyway, my memory is a little fuzzed out about the Tea Party show, but I seem to remember Clarence with his P/W Tele into a Dual Showman Reverb. Definitely no trouble hearing him, LOL.

Bryce Van Parys · Post by **Bryce Van Parys** » 14 Feb 2023 12:00 pm

Thanks for these posts. I came to this a little later in life, having been born in the 70s, and a bass player most of my adult career. A lot of these tracks were lost to the archives by the time I was aware. I recently added a Bender by Bjorn to a tele, and I'm frantically catching up on some classic Byrds and Eagles. Adding Peaceful Easy Feeling, You Ain't goin nowhere, and now some others. Suggestions of more Clarence White to check out would be most appreciated.

https://benderbybjorn.com/

K Maul · Post by **K Maul** » 14 Feb 2023 12:19 pm

Out take from the Easy Rider record with lots of B-bendy stuff. https://youtu.be/L2YjEFSB5ts

K Maul · Post by **K Maul** » 14 Feb 2023 7:12 pm

Tulsa County Blue, vocals removed. https://youtu.be/mcHZPN8WvUs

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 14 Feb 2023 8:06 pm

I'm glad I dredged this thread up! It was deeply buried. This forum is a goldmine of information, but you gotta dig for a lot of it. Current threads do not remotely hint at the depth of stuff here. This is not facebook, where almost everything of use is recent and on the surface. That is FB's design, it serves a specific purpose, but it is very shallow in comparison to the deep, historical documentation this forum provides.

Kevin, the isolated guitars version is killer! It shows just how precise Clarence's playing truly was. This doesn't always show up so clearly in a dense mix.

Bryce - there's tons of Clarence out there. Google and the youtube search function are your friends. I suggest a breadth-first search to start - cast your net wide. Then when you start to hone in where the good stuff is, dig in deeper.

And, IMO, don't ignore Clarence's flat top playing. No, no bender, but it informed every aspect of his playing, including electric. He was an absolute MASTER of bluegrass acoustic guitar, very groundbreaking, and it was critical not only in bluegrass, but moving into country rock and, eventually, country. There are virtually no country guitar players today who don't owe a debt to Clarence. The Country Boys, Kentucky Colonels, Muleskinner (which had both acoustic and electric components), and of course, The Byrds and onward.

Nice samplers here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkQcA3_33xE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04xd8dhx8fQ

But there's lots more out there.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 14 Feb 2023 9:10 pm

Not to be contrary, but I guess I will anyway - that Boston Tea Party mix with York on the lead vocal - well - it’s not my cup of tea. Even though he was one of my all-time musical heroes, the way Clarence came out in that audio was way over the top. I’ll stick with the album version.