Eric White

[Partridge]

from my email:

Eric White, Clarence's brother passed away june 4th i was told as a bass player for swampwater I think he was with them when Linda had the group as her band he was replaced later on by Chris Ethridge who also passed away this year

[erik]

Yes, E.W. was there when Linda had them; he was probably also there for Linda's October 1970 appearance at the Big Sur Folk Festival. A little bit more might be found at this link:

www.burritobrother.com/beland3.htm

Both Eric and his brother, as many followers of the California country-rock movement will know, formed the nucleus of the Kentucky Colonels, one of the preeminent bluegrass outfits of the early 1960s.

In any case, this has been a truly devastating time, to have seen musicians who were so close to Linda in one way or another pass away over the last two or three years.