Mickey White collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0828

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper clippings, newsletters, audio, and video documenting the music career of Mickey White, as well as the band Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys.

Dates

Creation: 1971 - 2018

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be obtained from Mickey White.

Biographical / Historical

After attending college at the University of Texas at Austin, Mickey White arrived in Houston in 1970. He had begun performing as a folk singer while in Austin, but his move to Houston was when he kicked off his music career.

After honing his guitar and performance skills in Houston, he moved to Nashville. Soon afterward, he toured nationally with Mickey Clark. By 1974, he became Townes Van Zandt's guitarist, which he continued to do until 1989. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, he also played in the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys, which he formed with Rex Bell.

In 1996, Mickey White began a second career as a high school History teacher and retired in 2018. He continues to play music in and around Austin, TX.