My favorite Curly solo

[Mike Perlowin]

I like the way your guys think.

[Clyde Bloodworth]

Stirring Up The Ashes by Hank Thompson does it for me.

[Bill Cunningham]

I'll try to MP3 the Charlie/Curly Danny Boy this weekend and put it up here. I listened to it about a month ago and I still have chill bumps!

And here's another plug for Mike's DVD.

[James Cann]

The Once and Future Chalker ride of them all: "Alberta Bound" -- Nashville Sundown.

[Mike Shefrin]

Here's the entire song with all the steel parts tabbed out. Below is the copedant I used(standard Emmons E9 neck setup)and I've also posted the MP3 clip of the song below.

A pedal raises 5th and 10th string B-C#
B pedal raises 3rd and 6th string G#-A
C pedal raises 4th string E-F# and 5th string B-C#

LKL- raises 4th and eighth string E-F
LKR-lowers 4th and eighth string E-Eb
RKL-lowers 6th string G#-F#
raises first string F#-G
RKR-lowers 9th string D-C#
lowers second string D#-D-C#



CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE MP3 OF THE ENTIRE SONG

[Mike Shefrin]

By the way, if you're using firefox as your browser, and cannot see the tab clearly, then go to the bar at the top of the page and click on View, and then click on "Page Style" where you'll see two options- "No Style" or "Basic Page Style". If you click on "No Style" you will then be able to see my tab clearly. When you are finished looking at the tab you can of course then go back to the normal view by clicking on "Basic Page Style". I hope this will be helpful to any of you who may have experienced difficulty in seeing the tab clearly.

[Steve Alcott]

One more plug for Mike-buy it!!!

[Mark Eaton]

Some fat tone by Curly.

Some puffy shirts on those Wilburns.

[Mike Perlowin]

Curly's break in Alberta Bound is nothing less than astonishing, and thank you Mike S for tabbing it out. That must have been extremely difficult.

But I'd say that this song doesn't really represent the "real" Curly Chalker. Perhaps a better way to put it would be to say that it represents another facet of his genius, but not his primary musical direction.

Clearly Curly was an amazing E9 player, but his true musical personality was his C6 playing. That's really where his heart and soul were.