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Dane Stinit
12+ albums
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about
Born Daniel Stinnett, 1938, near Owensboro, Kentucky Dane Stinit arrived on the music scene ten years too late. In 1956 he might have stood a chance with his Sun singles "Don't Knock What You Don't Understand" and "That Muddy Ole River", but not in 1966, the year in which he recorded them. Dane Stinnett (his real name) was born on a farm near Owensboro in Kentucky. After finishing high school in 1956, he saw that the job prospects in Owensboro were slender. He had some relations in Gary, Indiana, where he got a job with LTV Steel. He would stay with LTV for 31 years, and eventually settled in Lake Station, Indiana, a community almost entirely populated by transplanted southerners. Dane had played in a little local group in Owensboro, but had no real musical ambitions. On a trip back home in 1965 he was discovered at a party and was brought to the Sun studio by Bettye Berger (Ivory Joe Hunter's manager) to cut a custom session of Johnny Cash covers. Putting it mildly, Stinit's style owes a considerable debt to Johnny Cash. As it happened, Sam Phillips walked in the studio during the session, took over the controls from Stan Kesler and was impressed enough to sign the singer to Sun. On January 29, 1966, Phillips brought Dane back into the studio to cut a session in the Johnny Cash mould, complete with boom-chicka- boom backing. For six years after Cash's departure to Columbia, Phillips had been releasing Johnny Cash singles from the Sun vaults, but he was now staring at the
top songs
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Mean Eyed Cat
2342Muddy Ole River
1923Sweet Country Girl
1714Don't Knock What You Don't Understand
1655Flip Top Flipper
1026Always On The Go
967That Muddy Ole River (Near Memphis, Tennessee)
348The Muddy Ole River (Near Memphis Tennessee)
229Ghost of Mary Lou
1210The Muddy Ole River (Near Memphis, Tennessee)
10albums
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Men In Black - The Johnny Cash Sound
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Don't Knock What You Don't Understand / Always on the Go
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Sun Records_2.3
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That Muddy Ole River (Near Memphis, Tennessee) / Sweet Country Girl
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The Legendary Memphis Country Collection, Vol. 3
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The Legendary Sounds of Sun Studios - CD Two: Cotton Crop Country
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Sun Records: The Essential Collection
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The Legendary Sun Records Story Vol. 2 (Disc 3)
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The Complete Sun Singles Vol.5 - CD2
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Essential Collection, Disc 2
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A History of Country Vol. 11: 1965-68 - The Changing Years
Original Sun Recordings