Roland Joseph White was an American bluegrass musician born in 1938 in Madawaska, Maine. Born Roland Joseph LeBlanc, he was of French-Canadian descent and began his career performing in a family bluegrass band with his siblings. After relocating to California, the group was hired to perform on television as the Country Boys. White served in the US Army before re-joining the ensemble, which was renamed the Kentucky Colonels. Between 1967 and 1969, he performed as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. He subsequently joined Lester Flatt's band, the Nashville Grass, where he remained until 1973. His career also included a 13-year tenure with the group Country Gazette and membership in the Nashville Bluegrass Band from 1987 to 2000. In 2017, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. White died in 2022.
