Larry Dale McKinney

Singer and guitarist also known as Larry Dale Dale was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, but moved to Cleveland in the 1950s where he started playing guitar and singing. He lived in Chicago for 13 years where he formed his first group, and then later moved to Memphis where he worked with Ace Cannon for six years. In the mid-1970s he had a band in Memphis called Stout, consisting of Dale, bassist Richard Haddon and drummer Wayne Seipts, all staff musicians at Allied Recording Studios, Memphis which was headed by producer Lewis Willis at the time. He also played with Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich.