- Larry Dale
Larry Dale (born
7 January 1923 , Wharton,Texas ) is an Americanblues singer andguitarist .During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery (his legal name) took initial inspiration on
guitar playing fromB. B. King , soon making his first recordings as asideman for Paul Williams & His Orchestra (on Jax Records) and for Big Red McHouston & His Orchestra, and under his then chosenmoniker "Larry Dale" (for theRCA subsidiaryGroove Records ) with a band that includedMickey Baker andpianist Champion Jack Dupree .Dale worked the New York club circuit with pianist Bob Gaddy. He also was a frequent session guitarist in the New York studios, playing on all four of Dupree's 1956-58 sessions for RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, and on the best known Dupree LP, 1958's "
Blues from the Gutter ", for Atlantic. His playing on that LP inspiredBrian Jones (of Rolling Stones fame) ("Yeah! I have to play this… what a sound").Dale made most of his best sides as a leader when the decade turned from the 1950s to the 1960s. For Glover Records he recorded the party blues "Let the Doorbell Ring" and "Big Muddy" in 1960, then revived Sticks McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine-Spo-Dee-O-Dee" in 1962 on Atlantic.
References
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:57rc28gr052a Larry Dale biography by Bill Dahl, All Music Guide]
* John Broven: "Larry Dale: The New York Houserocker".- Juke Blues # 9 (summer 1987), p. 4-8
* [http://www.foundationstone.co.uk/sample.html Champion Jack and the Blues] (How Brian Jones was introduced to Larry Dale's guitar playing)External links
* [http://www.wirz.de/music/dale.htm Illustrated Larry Dale discography]
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