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Chuck Rhodes is a Texas Blues musician from the Dallas area who has performed since 1961 in the United States, South America and Europe. His influences include Huddie Ledbetter, Jimmy Reed, and Freddie King as well as Walter Horton and other Chicago blues artists. Rhodes was born in 1952 in Dallas, and began his performing career with a Leadbelly song he performed in 1961 in Richardson, Texas at McCord's Music store on a stage frequented by the Gents, the Chessmen and other local guitarists from the area. Rhodes played in various bands in Dallas, Austin, and the Corpus Christi areas until the late seventies, when he moved to the vicinity of Clarksville, Tennessee. Here, he was further influenced by the sounds of Jimmie and Little Stevie Vaughan, as well as Anson Funderburgh and Kim Wilson. Moving to Europe in '81, he and his bands "The Royals" introduced his brand of music to blues aficionados who, up until that time, had records in the genre available to them but few live performances to experience. The band was renamed "The Heaters" in early '82, enduring several personnel changes in the rhythm section during this period. Returning Stateside in '83, he began work on the vinyl LP "Woman Trouble", and upon its release in '86 began performing up and down the East Coast, where, in '90, he and his producer Doyle Wood (DAXWOOD Productions, Fayetteville, NC) began collaboration on a series of albums ("90 MPH", "Ruff Stuff" and "Raw Heat"). He and his band (featuring blues harp powerhouse Gregg "Big Train" Mitchell and bassist/band manager Til Iuliucci) enjoyed tremendous success in the region; at one point the band's music was on the playlist of more than 60 radio stations all over the Eastern Seaboard and inland. Rhodes and his immediate family moved to the Arkansas Ozarks in upon his brother's diagnosis of carcinogenic melanoma in 2005; he has remained in the area since. Experiencing a stroke, which left the right side of his body paralyzed, he was unable at one point to use his hand at all. With the help of his wife and doctors, he was soon able to regain a large percentage of movement in his right side, most importantly his hand. He continues to perform as of this writing as the Chuck Rhodes Band in the tri-state (AR, OK, and MO) area, most frequently in Northwest AR. He is currently working on another blues album ("Another Traffic Jam") in conjunction with Doyle Wood of DAXWOOD Productions, with an expected release date of Christmas of this year.(2019) Rhodes can be reached on Facebook, Bandzoogle and at thromgeldt@gmail.com. The band is scheduled to showcase Rhodes' latest album on October 18th @ The Meteor Guitar Gallery in Bentonville, AR.