Bio

With roots in Boise and Nashville, Harry Dial has been more associated with the traditional, more salient form of the Country and Blues genres, while honing his chops on up through the present as  guitarist and vocalist . His style has been sometimes described as “Grown man blues”, and if you ask about his influences, he will tell you, “no childhood obsession with any one artist materialized”. “I’ve been steeped in southern music, period. Growing up in a home with eight brothers and sisters presented a challenge whenever I wanted to listen to music uninterrupted, and it was always the soulful stuff. Mom had a  mariner's trunk, all painted nice and in the living room. I’d put on a Muddy Waters record, or Merle Haggard, or the Allman Brothers, turn it up, and I would climb in with the speaker and close the lid. Man what a sound”. 

Harry Dial is currently living in the Treasure Valley, in Boise. "I love music, and Idaho has some great music fans." Boise has a robust music scene and "..business here, supports live music as much as anywhere."

   Dial probably wishes he was related to namesake Harry Dial, a classic musician of the '30s and '40s who drummed for Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Louis Jordan. That Dial was also a bandleader, and his '30s recordings with a combo known as the Blusicians is indeed confused with the later Dial, despite the earlier artist's attempts to avoid confusion by dropping the "e" from the word "blues." Even though the Tennessee Dial's brand of blues comes dirtier, it is still safe to assume he has no connection with the Harry Dial who entered the Guinness Book of World Records for claiming to have gone 78 years without bathing.