 He also wrote songs using the name Larry Dale Matthews.Dale performed on the New York club circuit with the pianist Bob Gaddy in the 1950s.He was also 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.