Walter Rhodes
Biography
Walter Pat Rhodes, a street singer and accordionist from Cleveland, Mississippi regularly played in an ensemble made up of one or two guitarists a fiddler and Rhodes. In 1927 he became the first Sunflower County musician to record. His recording of Crowing Rooster Blues accompanied by Richard Hacksaw Harney and Mylon Harney (Pat and Can) on guitars precedes Pattons more famous recording of Banty Rooster Blues by two years. This record, backed with Leaving Home Blues, is the only commercial blues recording in English that used the accordion until the emergence of zydeco.
The Crowing Rooster
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Walter Rhodes, voice and accordion
Pet and Can (Maylon and Richard Harney), guitars
Columbia 14289-D (W 145358-2) Memphis, 10 December 1927 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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