Larry Dale

Singer, Musical Artist

1923 – 2010

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Who was Larry Dale?

Larry Dale was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Wharton, Texas, United States.

During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery took initial inspiration on guitar playing from B.B. King, soon making his first recordings as a sideman for Paul Williams & His Orchestra and for Big Red McHouston & His Orchestra, and under his then chosen moniker "Larry Dale" with a band that included Mickey Baker and pianist Champion Jack Dupree.

Dale worked the New York club circuit with the 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 album inspired Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.

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 Stick McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine-Spo-Dee-O-Dee" in 1962 on Atlantic. He died in New York in May 2010, at the age of 87.

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Born
Jan 7, 1923
Wharton
Also known as
  • Dale, Larry
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
May 19, 2010
New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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