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It should’ve happened… multiple hits, a massive career, world recognition and all the rest.

 

 DANE STINIT

SUN RECORDS COUNTRY STYLE

It was late in the game…and Dane didn’t have

the fighting, hungry spirit to go after a full-

time career in music. Dane (born Daniel

Stinnett, 1938, farm near Owensboro, Kentucky)

continued at it, working the LTV Steel Mill in

the Gary, Indiana area. He put in 31 years, took

retirement, but never gave no deep thoughts to picking up what he started late in the game, 1966. It was

then that Ivory Joe Hunter’s manager, Bettye Berger, discovered him at some party and encouraged him

to trek to Memphis and the Sun Studios. It was to be a paid for session, a vanity pressing, but Sam Phillips

happened into the building during the sessions, hear something—something that sounded liked Johnny

Cash—and signed the fellow up. Two singles were issued.

GIVE A LISTEN: “Muddy Ole River,” Sun 405

Two singles were issued: “Don’t Know What You Don’t Understand” and “Muddy Ole River.” Only two

further singles were issued by Sam Phillips on Sun. It was not early 1969 and Sam had sold the label to

Shelby Singleton. Back in Indiana, Dane carried on.