Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Slim Rhodes

Ethmer Cletus Rhodes, *1913 Pocahontas, AR, +10-03-66 
by Praguefrank, Bill Daniels, Xavier Maire, Mario Manciotti, Carl La Fong, Thieu Van DeVorst
SESSIONS
 July 1950 Memphis Recording Service, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN - Slim Rhodes
001 3754 unknown title
002 3755 SAVE A LITTLE LOVE FOR ME Gilt-Edge 5015
003 3756 unknown title
004 3757 SKUNK HOLLOW BOOGIE 5015
ca. December 1950 Memphis Recording Service, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes
005 3969 SIXTY DAYS 5026
006 3970 TIME MARCHES ON 5034
007 3971 HOT FOOT RAG 5034
008 3972 MEMPHIS BOUNCE 5026
ca. April 1951 Memphis Recording Service, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes
009 4099 RED, WHITE AND BLUE 5044
010 5000 OZARK BOOGIE 5044
23 February 1955 Sun Studio, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes (Slim Rhodes [gt], Dottie Rhodes-Moore [vcl-1], Dusty Rhodes [vcl-1/fiddle], Brad Suggs [vcl-2/gt], John Hughey [steel], Speck Rhodes [bass])
011 U144 DON'T BELIEVE -2 Sun 216
012 U145 UNCERTAIN LOVE -1 216
013 U158 THE HOUSE OF SIN -1 225
014 U159 ARE YOU ASHAMED OF ME? -2 225
2 February 1956 Sun Studio, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes (Slim Rhodes [gt], Dottie Rhodes-Moore [vcl-1], Dusty Rhodes [vcl-1/fiddle], Brad Suggs [vcl-2/gt], John Hughey [steel], Speck Rhodes [bass], W.S. Holland [drums])
015 U188 GONNA ROMP AND STOMP -1 238
016 U189 BAD GIRL -2 238
14 August 1956 Sun Studio, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes & Sandy Brooks (Slim Rhodes [gt], Sandy Brooks [vcl], Brad Suggs [gt], John Hughey [steel], Speck Rhodes [bass], Johnny Bernero [drums])
017 U216 TAKE AND GIVE 256
018 U217 DO WHAT I DO 256
1958 Sun Studio, 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN – Slim Rhodes
019 I’VE NEVER BEEN SO BLUE Sun unissued


ALBUMS
 Cotton Town Jubilee LP-102 The Rhodes Show On The Road: Slim's Boogie; Black Mountain Rag; Anybody But Me; Uncertain Love; Mary Ann Regrets; Speck Down At Skunk Hollow; I Don't Love Nobody; Watching My World Fall Apart; Little Shirt That Mama Made For Me; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Take Me Back To Memphis; Slim’s Boogie – 63 (radio shows: Slim Rhodes,Dusty Rhodes, Dottie Rhodes, John Hughey, Gordon Rhodes, Perry Kay Rhodes, recording info unknown)
? The Cotton Jubilee Transcriptions: [Slim Rhodes:] Slim's Boogie; Black Mountain Rag; Anybody But Me; Uncertain Love; Mary Ann; I Don't Love Nobody; Watching My World Fall Apart; Little Shirt That Mama Made For Me; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Take Me Back To Memphis; [Sonny Williams:] If You'll Be A Baby; Too Much Competition; Play Me A Country Song; Making Up For Lost Time; The Tears That Never Fell; I'd Give It All To Be With You; Honky Tonk Blues; This Old Town's Not Big Enough; Footprints On The Floor; Cotton Patch Hop - (transcriptions, all Slim Rhodes tracks for CTJ LP-102)

BACM [UK] CD D 630 Slim Rhodes and His Mountaineers – Memphis Bounce: Steel Guitar Rag; Carroll County Blues; The Leaf Of Love;  South;  Sally Goodin;  Big Eared Mule; You Should Have Thought Of That Before; Tennessee Border; John Henry; Kentucky Waltz; Forgive Me One More Time;  Spanish Two Step;  Rubber Doll Rag; Saturday Night Rag;  Freight Train Boogie;  Red Wing;  Beaumont Rag; Soldiers Joy; Down In Nashville, Tennessee; All The World Is Lonely Now; San Antonio Rose; Memphis Bounce; Mother's Only Sleeping; Skunk Hollow Boogie;  Draggin' The Bow – 04-19

 




SINGLES
 Gild-Edge (1950-51)
5015 Save A Little Love For Me / Skunk Hollow Boogie - 50
5026 Sixty Days / Memphis Bounce – 51 (also on Maple Leaf G-303)
5034 Time Marches On / Hot Foot Rag - 51
5044 Red, White And Blue / Ozark Boogie - 51
Sun (1955-58)
216 Don't Believe / Uncertain Love – 04-55 (rev. Apr. 30)
225 The House Of Sin / Are You Ashamed Of Me? – 08-55 (rev, Oct. 22)
238 Gonna Romp And Stomp / Bad Girl – 04-56 (rev. April 28)
256 Take And Give / Do What I Do – 11-56 w. Sandy Brooks (rev. Jan. 5, 1957)

TRANSCRIPTIONS EPs


Langworth (early 1950’s) [incomplete]
WES 26 Kentucky Waltz;  Carroll Country Blues / Beaumont Rag; Rubber Doll Rag – ca 51
WES 30 Freight Train Boogie + 3 tracks
WES 51 Steel Guitar Rag + 3 tracks
WES 71 South + 3  tracks
WES 72 Hot Foot Rag + 3 tracks
WES 73 Sally Goodin; Cacklin‘ Hen /  Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; John Henry – (MX: LNY 2845/6]

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