L. E. White

White was born in 1930 in Blaine, Tennessee.[1]

He began his career in 1949 playing bluegrass fiddle with The Bailey Brothers.[2] In the 1950s, he played with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper's Clinch Mountain Clan.[3] He also appeared with the Osborne Brothers in 1953.[4]

As a songwriter, White had over two hundred songs recorded,[3] including the "After the Fire Is Gone", written for Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, who won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[3][5] He had a number one hit with Twitty's "I Love You More Today" in 1969.[3] He also co-wrote Twitty's hit songs "To See My Angel Cry" (1969) and "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" (1974).[1] White and Lola Jean Dillon charted in 1977 with their recordings of "Home, Sweet Home" and "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly."[1]

In further collaboration with Conway Twitty, White established and administered Twitty's publishing companies, Hello Darling Music and Twitty Bird Music.[1]

From 1978 to 1984, White was a minority shareholder in the Nashville Sounds, a Double-A Minor League Baseball team in Nashville, Tennessee.[6][7]

White died of a heart attack on September 7, 2004, at age 74, at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.[1][3]

White was the father of Michael White, a songwriter who recorded for Reprise Records in the early 1990s.[1]