Larry Dale

Larry Dale (born 7 January 1923, Wharton, Texas) is an American blues singer and guitarist.

During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery (his legal name) took initial inspiration on guitar playing from B. B. King, soon making his first recordings as a sideman for Paul Williams & His Orchestra (on Jax Records) and for Big Red McHouston & His Orchestra, and under his then chosen moniker "Larry Dale" (for the RCA subsidiary Groove Records) with a band that included Mickey Baker and pianist 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 inspired Brian 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]