Laura Weber White
Laura Weber White (born 1971), who has also recorded as Laura Cash, is a fiddler, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She was born in Sandwich, Illinois, and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, where she began playing at nine and studied fiddle with Joey McKenzie. She won the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho, in 1988, at 17, and returned to win the adult division in 2009. She toured Japan in 1992–93 with a bluegrass group including Scott Vestal and Gena Britt. In Nashville she toured with James House, Pam Tillis, Harley Allen and Patty Loveless and appeared with Roy Acuff and with Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys on the Grand Ole Opry. She joined June Carter Cash's 1999 Press On tour and married her son, John Carter Cash, in 2000. She played fiddle on Johnny Cash's III: Solitary Man and IV and on June Carter Cash's Wildwood Flower, and she performed with John Carter Cash and Dale Jett as the Carter Family III. She released her debut solo album, Among My Souvenirs, in 2003. She has also recorded with George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs and Benny Martin, including on Martin's The "Big Tiger" Roars Again. She married guitarist and mandolinist Jeff White in 2017.