page_title: Sonny Rhodes
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caption_attribution_description: Sonny Rhodes in 2000 at JJ's Blues Club San Jose California; guitar and vocals
context_page_description: Clarence Smith, known as Sonny Rhodes, is an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player. He has recorded over two hundred songs. "I'm what you call a self-proclaimed Disciple of the Blues!" said Rhodes about his years playing and singing for fans of blues around the world. He has been nominated 15 times for Blues Music Awards and won in the category 'Instrumentalist – Other' in 2011.
context_section_description: Clarence Smith (born Clarence Edward Mauldin, November 3, 1940), known as Sonny Rhodes, is an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player. He has recorded over two hundred songs. "I'm what you call a self-proclaimed Disciple of the Blues!" said Rhodes about his years playing and singing for fans of blues around the world. He has been nominated 15 times for Blues Music Awards and won in the category 'Instrumentalist – Other' in 2011.
caption: Rhodes performing in 2000
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