Doug Poindexter

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Doug Poindexter & the Starlite Wranglers were only the fifth or sixth white act ever signed to Sun Records. Heavily influenced by his idol Hank Williams, Poindexter was pure country; in fact, pure hillbilly. The Starlite Wranglers circa 1953-1954 consisted of Bill Black on standup bass, Tommy Sealey on fiddle, Millard Yeow playing steel guitar, Clyde Rush on acoustic guitar, and Scotty Moore on electric guitar, with Poindexter providing the nasal, traditional, country-style singing and strumming a guitar as well. Moore claims credit for bringing Poindexter to Sam Phillips' attention at Sun, and for organizing the session that resulted in May of 1954; he certainly shared songwriting credit on both sides of the resulting single, the very hillbilly-sounding "Now She Cares No More" and the raunchy, almost proto-rockabilly "My Kind of Carrying On." The latter pointed the way toward the sound that Moore would capture about a month later, when he and Elvis Presley got together at Sun for the first time. Presley certainly was familiar with Poindexter & the Starlite Wranglers, and had attended a number of their performances. It's also possible that Poindexter played without credit on several of Presley's Sun recordings, including "Good Rockin' Tonight," and may have helped in putting together some of the arrangements. Presley also played lots of local shows at places like the Bel Air Club with The Starlite Wranglers, which wasn't always an easy fit because of their unabashed country s

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Sun Records - 60 Years, 60 Singles Box Set

The Sun Records Collection

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Sun Hillbilly

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The Sam Phillips Story: The Man Who Found The Stars

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The Sun Records Collection (Disc 1)

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The Sun Records Collection [Rhino] Disc 1

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The Sun Records Story CD1

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Sun Records Colleciton

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The Sun Records Collection Disc 1

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The Sun Records Story CD2

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The Sun Records Collection [Disc 1]

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Sun Records Collection

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