curly chalker

Paul Wade · From: mundelein,ill

just wondering, did curly ever record or played
"nite life" in his sets or live?

paul wade

Jim Phelps · From: Mexico City, Mexico

Seems like I've heard him play it, I'll have to check now, I still have a cassette I made of him live around '90. I'm sure someone else around here could tell you for sure anyway...

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

He played it thousands of times, on steel and on lead guitar when he worked for me. He played it as awsome as you would ever believe. The blues section was where he went nuts, he'd go for five minutes at a time, and have everyone in the club screaming and applauding. Women would throw babies in the air! But then he did several "show off" tunes incredibly well. Never a dull moment.
I hired Curly and Phil Baugh together once to help me in a western swing gig on music row in Nashville, I wish it would have been recorded, it was a true musical slug fest, not a dry eye (or ear) in the house. Faron Young sat in and it had to be the most entertaining night that ever was, in my life any way. (except for one time in a motel room in Montan----------,) oh never mind.

Jim Phelps · From: Mexico City, Mexico

Thanks Bobbe, for sure you'd know. I was pretty sure I'd heard him do it and have even played it with him, but I don't trust my memory that much anymore. It all blurs together.

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

I guess so, at your age! (Ha!)

Lee Baucum · From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier

I've heard that Bobbe is still not allowed to return to Montana...

Donny Hinson · From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.

Every time I listen to "Big Hits On Big Steel", I miss his playing a little more.

Many play in the style of the other "greats" of the steel guitar world, but no one's ever come forth to carry the Chalker torch.

Len Amaral · From: Rehoboth,MA 02769

I wish Curly's music was available on CD. maybe it will be at some point. I wear out the cassette tapes.

Paul King · From: Gainesville, Texas, USA

The only bad thing I know of about Curly Chalker is he played on Hee Haw. When I used the word bad I just mean they never showcased his talent. Curly was a monster player and would leave people like me just shaking their head in disbelief. I wish I could have seen him more than I did and I for one sure miss him.

Jeff Lampert · From: queens, new york city

A massively intelligent, imaginative, and visionary musical mind with Herculean technical capability. Words are simply insufficient to describe the magnitude of the loss.

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Jim Phelps · From: Mexico City, Mexico

quote:
Every time I listen to "Big Hits On Big Steel", I miss his playing a little more.

Many play in the style of the other "greats" of the steel guitar world, but no one's ever come forth to carry the Chalker torch.

Gary Walker · From: Morro Bay, CA

It's true, Hee Haw really didn't show how great Curly's playing was but once in a while, he could sneak in a specialty of his own. Behind the Hagar twins, he played some fine stuff. When he would play with Roy Clark is when Roy would let him solo. One of the best solos was Roy Playing "In The Mood" which he did on an LP in about '63 or so. On the 25th anniversary show of Hee Haw, Roy's ITM tune featured Curly taking a signature solo on the C6 as only he could do. It's among my treasured Chalker stuff on video.

Charles Curtis · Posted 30 Jul 2005 3:19 am

Wouldn't it be great if all Curly's video recorded appearances would be put on a dvd?

Howard Tate · From: Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.

A steel guitar moment that stands out in my memory was on Hee Haw. I can't remember the song, all I remember was Curly extending his left ring finger beyond the bar and tapping a string with it to get one of his licks. That's all I remember about it, but I think about it a lot, trying to understand what he was doing.

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Roger Edgington · From: San Antonio, Texas USA

When Hee Haw first came on I heard they would have Curly and Leon Rhodes and I couldn't hardly wait. Sure wish they would have let them play some like they were really capable of doing. I was ready for some hot stuff after hearing Leon and Charleton with ET.

Gary Walker · From: Morro Bay, CA

I had heard that Tom Bradshaw had inquired about obtaining copies of the instrumentals the Hee Haw band had recorded and the asking price was 100K. Obviously, Gaylord over-estimates the worth of their precious decaying tapes.
Donny, I agree with "Big Hits On Big Steel". It is the benchmark of Curly's playing.

[This message was edited by Gary Walker on 01 August 2005 at 10:27 PM.]

[This message was edited by Gary Walker on 20 September 2005 at 10:15 PM.]

Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

I have a vidio of Curly backed by a great three piece band,no vocal's or other distracting,just pure Curly.I thing these were being sold to help him with his health problems.Dont know if there is any left.It'been several years ago. I think I got mine from Scotty's he may still have some I dont know.If you can get it.Do it ,You wont be sorry!!! It was taped in a night club somewhere in California with the house band,guitar,drums,and bass.

Charles Dempsey · From: Shongaloo, LA

Hee-Haw is seriously under-rated. Yes, it was comedy music, but it kept country music in the public eye at a time when the "mainstream" was one big dope-head meltdown.

IMHO, Buck Owens is bigger than the Beatles.

Heh,
Charlie

Jim Bob Sedgwick · From: Clinton, Missouri USA

I played Bass on the Video done at Jack Laux's California Country Club in Ontario, CA. Mike Perlowin was instrumental in making copies of this video available. I do not know if they are still available though. MIKE ?

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

The Chalker touch is unmistakable. I keep going back to S'Wonderful, with Curly, Joe Venuti, Jethro Burns, and Eldon Shamblin. His chord voicings and swing feel on that record just blew everyone else away, IMHO. It ain't just speed or technique - he's the coolest cat on the planet for that kind of stuff, to me - Ellington, Gershwin. What would he have sounded like with Duke Ellington's band? I'd love to have heard that. I don't think anybody could swing harder than Curly. He just sinks into the pocket better than any jazz steeler (or frankly, most any other jazz musician) I've ever heard, no disrespect intended to anybody. I could easily imagine Curly fitting in with the deep blues guys like T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters or B.B. King, where feel is everything. Curly just oozed the blues, in the best sense of the word.

I just picked up an old LP "The Thompson Touch", with Chalker, Phil Baugh, Johnny Gimble, and Buddy Spicher and others backing Hank Thompson. Some great stuff, including some killer E9-sounding country intros/solos. Curly didn't get to stretch out as much as I would have liked, but he just lit up the serious swingin' material like "Don't Get Around Much Anymore". I sort of think of him as the "Wes Montgomery of steel guitar". Rich tone, unique and innovative voicings - often imitated, never duplicated. No argument, lots of other great jazz players, but he leaves a gigantic void, IMO.

George Redmon · From: Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.

Dave...you are so so right..every word. Everytime you think you had curly figured out, he would blow you away with something else...i think like you do, he could have fit right in with any of those jazzer's and had room to spare....
George Redmon Worlds #1 Curly Chalker Fan

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Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

Jim Bob Thanks for the responce,I assumed you guys were the house band ,Any way you all were great. The guitar player was phenomenal.This is one of my most watched vidios,Over the years I pull it out every month or so and watch it.I burned myself a CD of it so I would always have it.I have always been a C'6th nut,I'm not putting down all the other great 6'th players the list is to long to mention,but I bet most of them would agree,Curly was the MAN!!!By the way he was just as good on the ninth neck as well.It's a shame every steeler on the planet cant see this show..Thanks again. Charles Davidson.

Russ Wever · From: Kansas City

Paul,
Took me a while to dig this out, but
click here for Curly playing Night Life.
~Russ

basilh · From: United Kingdom

Dan Sawyer · From: Studio City, California, USA

Curly's playing knocks me out but i don't have any of his recordings. Which one do you guys recommend as the best?

They were playing one of his records on the Steel guitar Radio station where he was playing with a big band (lots of brass). Anybody know the name of that?

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