Jeff White
Jeff White with Earls of Leicester performing at MerleFest in 2015
Background information
Born	(1957-08-02) August 2, 1957 (age 66) Syracuse, New York
Origin	Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres	Bluegrass, Country, Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer, musician, songwriter, record producer, sound mixer
Instrument(s)	Guitar Mandolin
Years active	1979–present
Labels	Rounder

Jeff White (born August 2, 1957) is an American bluegrass guitarist/mandolinist, songwriter, record producer and sound mixer. Jeff White has performed and produced albums with many artists including: Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, The Chieftains, Lyle Lovett, Tim O'Brien, The Travelin' McCourys, Michael Cleveland and The Earls Of Leicester. White won the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, for Best Bluegrass Album with The Earls of Leicester.^[1][2] One of Jeff's key mentors is award-winning fiddler Michael Cleveland. Jeff and Michael have earned four International Bluegrass Music Awards for Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year. Jeff produced several of Michael Cleveland's albums. Jeff has toured with banjo picking Earl Scruggs and Louise Scruggs.^[3] Jeff White has produced and released three solo albums: in 1996 The White Album, in 1999 The Broken Road and in 2016 Right Beside You.^[4][5]

Biography

Jeff White was born in Syracuse, New York; at 13 his family moved to North Manchester, Indiana. Jeff's first interest in bluegrass and country music came from seeing the Hee Haw television show that started in 1971. Jeff started to play guitar in high school and joined the high school bluegrass band, the "Suburban Grass". The band played at schools, coffeehouses and then local bars. In college Jeff discovered his love for bluegrass from a dorm mate that played mandolin. Jeff's dorm mate introduced Jeff to Doc Watson, a pioneer of bluegrass music. Jeff studied Dan Crary, Norman Blake, Don Reno, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys and The Stanley Brothers. After listening to and learning from the classics, Jeff studied the new bluegrass artists such as Sam Bush and JD Crowe. The next band Jeff joined was The Johnsons. Jeff White and The Johnsons came in 1st place in the Best Bluegrass Band in America contest, put on by KFC in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. Winning the contest earned them a free recording session in RCA's Nashville studio on Music Row. Tom Collins, an album producer with Real Music City Records, helped them make two singles. In 1981 Jeff White and The Johnsons where named the Best New Bluegrass Band. The Johnsons Band was made up of: Dave Johnson, Dan Anderson, Melody Johnson and Jeff White.^[7] White departed the group and returned to Indiana to attend graduate school. But, Jeff returned to bluegrass and moved to Beanblossom, Indiana, there he joined up with a new and upcoming bluegrass fiddler Alison Krauss. In 1987, Jeff join Alison Krauss band the Union Station. Union Station recorded two albums while he was a member: in 1989 Two Highways and in 1990 I've Got That Old Feeling. A seaside resort in Japan wanted a bluegrass music band, so Jeff joined other bluegrass artists: Scott Vestal, Jeff Autry, Dave Peters, and Gena Britt in 1991 and play for a year. Jeff moved to Nashville in 1992, he played bluegrass at the Station Inn with Tim O'Brien. Jeff broke into professional music when Vince Gill took Jeff on the road with George Jones and Conway Twitty. Vince Gill had Jeff sing When I Call Your Name at the Grand Ole Opry. Vince Gill got Jeff a job playing with Lyle Lovett. Jeff's next job was playing with the traditional Irish band formed in Dublin The Chieftains. Looking to cross Celtic music with bluegrass and country, Paddy Moloney looked to Jeff to help with the new sound. Jeff toured, performed and helped produce the 2002 The Chieftains album Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions and in 2003 Further Down the Old Plank Road.^[8] Jeff's next project was working with bluegrass fiddle player Michael Cleveland on his albums. Jeff is also a songwriter and has written songs for The Del McCoury Band, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Dale Ann Bradley, Stringdusters and Dan Tyminski. Jeff sometimes plays guitar with the Nashville bluegrass band The Travelin' McCourys. Jeff currently plays mandolin for The Earls of Leicester, a band that plays tribute to Flatt and Scruggs. Jeff is married to country music fiddler, guitarist, singer and songwriter, Laura Weber White. Jeff and Laura live in Nashville and were married on March 12, 2017.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Discography

Jeff White's discography:^[15]

Albums

Solo albums

Year	Album	Note
1996	The White Album	[16]
1999	The Broken Road	[17]
2016	Right Beside You	[18][19][20]

Albums

• Albums Jeff has performed on and/or helped produce:^[21]

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Year	Album	Artist	Note
1987	Too Late to Cry	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Guitar [22]
1989	Two Highways	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Guitar, vocals, Grammy Nominated [23]
1990	Bluegrass Class of 1990	Various Artist	Guitar, vocals [24]
1990	Breathe the Moonlight	Kimberly M'Carver	Guitar, vocals [25]
1990	I've Got That Old Feeling	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Guitar, vocals, Grammy Awards of 1991 won Best Bluegrass Recording.[26][27]
1992	Son of Rounder Banjo	Various Artist	Guitar, vocals [28]
1993	On a Roll	Pete Wernick	Guitar, vocals [29]
1994	Inherited Road	Kimberly M'Carver	Guitar, vocals [30]
1994	When Love Finds You	Vince Gill	Vocals [31]
1995	In the Falling Dark	David Mallett	Vocals [32]
1995	All of This Love	Pam Tillis	Vocals [33]
1995	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics	Various Artist	Vocals [34]
1995	Moonlighter	Claire Lynch	Guitar, vocals [35]
1995	Now That I've Found You: A Collection	Alison Krauss	Guitar, vocals [36]
1995	Top of the Hill Bluegrass	Various Artist	Guitar, vocals [37]
1996	High Lonesome Sound	Vince Gill	Guitar, vocals [38]
1996	Sisters	Beth & April Stevens	Guitar [39]
1996	Sweet Harmony	The Whitstein Brothers	Guitar [40]
1996	The Cold Hard Facts	Del McCoury Band	Composer [41]
1996	Trouble with the Truth	Patty Loveless	Vocals [42]
1997	Live in Indianapolis	Gospel Music Workshop of America	Bass Guitar [43]
1997	So Long So Wrong	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Composer [44]
1997	Songs of the Louvin Brothers	Various Artist	Guitar [45]
1997	Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1	Various Artist	Vocals [46]
1997	The Long Road	Pam Gadd	Guitar [47]
1998	A Tribute to Tradition	Various Artist	Guitar [48]
1998	Brother Jukebox	Paul Craft	Guitar [49]
1998	Long Way Home	Amy Gallatin	Vocals [50]
1998	The Key	Vince Gill	Vocals [51]
2000	Sad Songs & Waltzes	Keith Whitley	Guitar [52]
2000	Carry Me Across the Mountain	Dan Tyminski	Composer [53]
2000	Dead Grass Feat: Vassar Clements	Dead Grass	Vocals [54]
2000	Doobie Shea Essential Sampler	Various Artist	Composer [55]
2000	Let's Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye	Vince Gill	Vocals [56]
2000	Ready to Go	Bryan Sutton	Composer [57]
2000	The Chain Gang	Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe	Composer [58]
2001	Blue Trail of Sorrow: 16 Top Bluegrass Gems	Various Artists	Composer [59]
2001	Cool Blue Rocks: Rock 'N' Roll in the Bluegrass Tradition	Various Artists	Vocals [60]
2001	Mountain Soul	Patty Loveless	Vocals [61]
2001	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection	Various Artists	Guitar[62]
2001	Songcatcher	Various Artists Original Soundtrack	Guitar, vocals [63][64]
2001	Two Journeys	Tim O'Brien	Vocals [65]
2002	Bluegrass Greats	Various Artists	Producer, vocals, guitar, composer [66]
2002	Delayed but Not Denied	The Bonner Brothers	Engineer, Audio Engineer, Composer [65]
2002	Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions	The Chieftains	Engineer, vocals, guitar, vocals Producer, Grammy nominated [67]
2002	O Sister 2: A Women's Bluegrass Collection	Various Artists	Guitar [68]
2002	Second Son	Jim Hurst	Vocals [69]
2002	The Angels Are Singing: A Women's Bluegrass Gospel Collection	Various Artists	Vocals [70]
2002	The Singer-Songwriter Collection	Various Artists	Vocals [71]
2002	Flame Keeper	Michael Cleveland	Producer, mixer, vocals [72]
2003	Blue Ridge Mountain Mandolin	Various Artists	Guitar [73]
2003	Bluegrass Today	Various Artists	Producer, mixer, vocals [74]
2003	Chartbuster Karaoke: Bluegrass, Vol. 16	Various Artists	Composer [75]
2003	Comfort of Her Wings	Charley Pride	Guitar [76]
2003	Further Down the Old Plank Road	The Chieftains	Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Associate Producer [77]
2003	Love Goes On	Andrea Zonn	Vocals [77]
2003	Midnight Call	Don Rigsby	Guitar [78]
2003	Next Big Thing	Vince Gill	Vocals [79]
2003	White Dove: The Bluegrass Gospel Collection	Various Artists	Vocals [80]
2004	Bluegrass Number 1's	Various Artists	Vocals [81]
2004	High Lonesome and Blue	Del McCoury	Composer [82]
2004	Live - The Bonner Brothers	The Bonner Brothers	Composer [83]
2004	Emily Watson EP	Human Hands	Vocals [84]
2004	Melonie Cannon	Melonie Cannon	Vocals [85]
2005	Georgia Hard	Robbie Fulks	Guitar, vocals [86]
2005	Live from Dublin: A Tribute to Derek Bell	The Chieftains	Guitar [87]
2005	Fired Up	Michael Cleveland	Mixer, producer [88]
2005	New Standards for Flatpicking Guitar	Various Artists	Composer, Artist [89]
2005	Catch Tomorrow	Dale Ann Bradley	Guitar, Vocal Harmony [90]
2006	Day in the Country	Butch Baldassari	Guitar [91]
2006	Let Er Go Boys	Michael Cleveland	Mixer, producer, vocals [92]