Larry Dale (b. January 7, 1923 in Wharton, Texas) is an American blues singer and guitarist. January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wharton is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ...

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 (Jax label) 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. Riley B. King aka B. B. King (b. ... Paul Williams (1915 – 2002) was an American blues and rhythm and blues alto and baritone saxophonist and composer. ... Mickey Guitar Baker is an American Rock & Roll guitar player. ... A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. ... RCAs logo as seen today on many products. ... Mickey Guitar Baker is an American Rock & Roll guitar player. ... William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. ...

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"). Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was a founding member, lead and rhythm guitarist and backing singer in the English rock group, The Rolling Stones. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ...

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

• 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
• Champion Jack and the Blues (How Brian Jones was introduced to Larry Dale's guitar playing)

External links

• Illustrated Larry Dale discography