In the Navy, he moved west to California, where he worked for a while as a radio man and closed-circuit Navy ship disc jockey, telling off-color jokes in between the country and blues records he would spin for the entertainment of the sailors. Rhodes' first band, Clarence Smith & the Daylighters, played the Austin area blues clubs before Rhodes decided to join the Navy after graduating from high school. Other guitarists he credits as being influences include Pee Wee Crayton and B.B. Rhodes listened to a lot of T-Bone Walker when he was young, and it shows in his playing today. Rhodes began performing around Smithville and nearby Austin in the late '50s, while still in his teens. Rhodes began playing seriously when he was 12, although he got his first guitar when he was eight as a Christmas present. Blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Sonny Rhodes is such a talented songwriter, so full of musical ideas, that he's destined to inherit the to seats left open by the untimely passing of blues greats like Albert King and Albert Collins.īorn Novemin Smithville, TX, he was the sixth and last child of Le Roy and Julia Smith, who were sharecroppers.
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