# Wasn't Born to Follow guitar solo > Clarence White's guitar solo on Wasn't Born to Follow by The Byrds (1968) starts at about 0:50. From the album The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Canonical URL: The Byrds, 1968, from *The Notorious Byrd Brothers*. Solo by *Clarence White*. Clarence White's string-bending country licks dominate the arrangement of this Goffin–King song. Wasn't Born to Follow is a Goffin-King song, and Clarence White's string-bending country licks dominate the arrangement. His playing is bright and twangy, with bends that imitate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. The contrast between the song's gentle melody and White's energetic guitar gives the track a lively, playful character. White's work with the Byrds helped bring country guitar into rock, anticipating the country-rock sound that would take hold over the following years. Listen for the bends that slide up to pitch smoothly, a technique that makes his electric guitar sound surprisingly like a steel guitar. Wasn't Born to Follow by The Byrds is featured in our Folk Rock (#19) list. The solo is played by Clarence White and the song was released in 1968. ## In our lists - [The 25 Greatest Folk Rock Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/folk-rock/) — #19 - [The Best The Byrds Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-byrds-guitar-solos/) — #9 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1968](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1968/) — #15 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Wasn't Born to Follow? Clarence White played the solo on The Byrds's Wasn't Born to Follow (1968). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)