Slim Rhodes

1913 (age 53)

Pocahontas, Randolph County, United States of America

The group was later dubbed the Log Cabin Mountaineers by a Missouri state senator who invited them to play for the state legislature. Slim was Medical Corps and played guitar. Dusty played fiddle; Bea played fiddle, mandolin and accordion. Speck played the bass fiddle, banjo, and did comedy (and in 1960 joined Porter Wagoner"s band). The Rhodes family toured from Missouri to California and back, playing in theaters. From 1938-1941, the group was heard on KWOC-Department of Administration and Management in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and often performed at the Mid-South Fair. Other members at the time were Buddy Simmons and Tiny Little. Starting in 1939, "Slim Rhodes & The Mother"s Best Mountaineers" were heard daily on WMC-Department of Administration and Management in Memphis, Tennessee at 11:30 a.m. on the South Central Quality Network, sponsored by Mother"s Best Flour. The group also had a weekly Saturday show over WMCT-Department of Administration and Management in Memphis from 12–12:30 p.m. By 1953, they also had a 30-minute live show on KATV-television in Pine Bluff, Arkansas every Tuesday. Other members included Brad "Pee Wee" Suggs (electric guitar), who recorded on Meteor Records and later for Phillips International on his own. And Danny Holloway (steel guitar). In 1950, Rhodes was signed by Gilt-Edge. Sun Records in Memphis signed the group from 1955-1958, recording a mix of country and rockabilly. Rhodes acquired an Elvis Presley sound-alike vocalist, Sandy Brooke. Releasing the rockabilly "Do What I Do" and "Take and Give". Between 1955-1957, Rhodes was a frequent part of Sun tours through the southern United States. In 1966, he released the album, The Rhodes Show on the Road on the Cotton Town Jubilee label. Rhodes" radio and television and programs ended the mid-1960s. Slim died in 1966 from a fall in his Memphis home.

Slim Rhodes

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Ethmer Cletus "Slim" Rhodes, the son of James K. Polk Rhodes and Amanda Elizabeth Patterson Montgomery, was born in Poughkeepsie, Arkansas.

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The group was later dubbed the Log Cabin Mountaineers by a Missouri state senator who invited them to play for the state legislature. Slim was Medical Corps and played guitar. Dusty played fiddle; Bea played fiddle, mandolin and accordion.

Speck played the bass fiddle, banjo, and did comedy (and in 1960 joined Porter Wagoner"s band).

The Rhodes family toured from Missouri to California and back, playing in theaters. From 1938-1941, the group was heard on KWOC-Department of Administration and Management in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and often performed at the Mid-South Fair.

Other members at the time were Buddy Simmons and Tiny Little. Starting in 1939, "Slim Rhodes & The Mother"s Best Mountaineers" were heard daily on WMC-Department of Administration and Management in Memphis, Tennessee at 11:30 a.m. on the South Central Quality Network, sponsored by Mother"s Best Flour.

The group also had a weekly Saturday show over WMCT-Department of Administration and Management in Memphis from 12–12:30 p.m.

By 1953, they also had a 30-minute live show on KATV-television in Pine Bluff, Arkansas every Tuesday. Other members included Brad "Pee Wee" Suggs (electric guitar), who recorded on Meteor Records and later for Phillips International on his own. And Danny Holloway (steel guitar).

In 1950, Rhodes was signed by Gilt-Edge.

Sun Records in Memphis signed the group from 1955-1958, recording a mix of country and rockabilly. Rhodes acquired an Elvis Presley sound-alike vocalist, Sandy Brooke.

Releasing the rockabilly "Do What I Do" and "Take and Give". Between 1955-1957, Rhodes was a frequent part of Sun tours through the southern United States. In 1966, he released the album, The Rhodes Show on the Road on the Cotton Town Jubilee label.

Rhodes" radio and television and programs ended the mid-1960s.

Slim died in 1966 from a fall in his Memphis home.

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