Description
Dutch Whiteaker is a local North Missouri musician. Born in Knox City, Knox County, Missouri, by the age of 13 he knew he wanted to be a guitar player. To quote Dutch, ” My family got tired of my noise so they sent me to the smoke house to practice. I smelled like cured ham for a long time”! His first guitar he says, was a “Stella” from Sears and Roebuck. His next guitar, a “Framus” arch top was given to him by his uncle Lyndsay Parrish so he could follow along while his uncle played fiddle. Dutch says his first electric guitar was a blue “Custom Craft” that he played for high school dances and family get-togethers. At age 15 he backed up his mother when she sang on the “Possum Hollar Opry” on TV channel 10 out of Quincy, Illinois. After graduation from Knox County High School, Dutch did a stint in the service. When he returned home in 1971, he bought a Fender Twin Reverb amp and a cherry red Gibson 335 double cutaway hollow body guitar from David Daniels at the Circle M Music store in Kirksville, Missouri! He played with the Wendy Broumbaugh band for a time and then with Bill Haye’s “Country Travelers” for 12 years. After getting married, Dutch played with a gospel group called “Cross Timber”, led by Perry Martin from Caseyville, Missouri. Then, as Dutch puts it, “At the ripe old age of 70, I started a band called the “Music Doctors” in which I am still involved and play regularly. Dutch always supports other artists and enjoys “jamming” with fellow musicians from time to time. Especially, at the West Guitar Center in downtown Macon, Missouri. Keep pickin’ Dutch!
As Dutch says, “The jam sessions are just for fun”! And we sure enjoy learning from him!
Click below to hear Dutch’s instrumental rendition of “Windy and Warm”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaYbvuW93FU
Here is Dutch jamming with local favorite Ronnie Truitt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBXaD0c2i4&t=85s
And a jam session at West Guitar Center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1J2U2OrzuU
Dutch’s version of “Ghost Riders in the Sky”!!