Reid Doughten - Guitar
Born and raised in Smyrna Delaware, Reid came from a family with blues and jazz in their blood. With a grandfather and great-uncle both steeped in traditional and big-band jazz, and a guitar slinging father who keeps the blues emanating from stages around Delaware and eastern Maryland, the music was almost inescapable. Not that it's a bad thing he'd tell you. By high school he’d developed his own passion and appreciation for the blues, learning the nuts and bolts and the spaces between the notes and then putting them to use sitting in with his father’s blues band and jamming with other young bluesmen in the basements and garages around Smyrna. Influenced most by his dad, Lin, and by Sean Costello, Reid now claims as stereo-wave mentors a long list of originators that belong in any blues and jazz record collection, cats like Jimmy Rogers, T-Bone Walker, BB King, Charlie Christian, Guitar Slim, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Lightnin' Hopkins and a host of others, as well as second generation torch bearers like Duke Robillard and Jimmy Vaughan. Reid began playing with Little Roger and the Cheap Thrills in the fall of 2005 after starting his junior year of college. Now sharing the stage with some of the most talented , passionate bluesmen in Virginia who also know a thing or two about the road, Reid ’s just thankful for the opportunity to do what he loves and to continue learning ... (and to be a Cheap Thrill).
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