More Curly Chalker Videos

[Peter Freiberger]

"holybucket" has put a bunch of interesting old clips on YouTube. The Wilburn Brothers with Curly Chalker, Merle Haggard from '67, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hol ... iew=videos

Here's another, Curly on E9:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZFQVt4abSY

[Alan Miller]

Curley Chalker is astounding , hes so loose, almost like his hands are moving in fine oil.
Also astounding is that Mike perlowin still has 600 DVDs of this great player yet to be purchased, he plays some great E9 on it in two jaw dropping performances.

[Larry Petree]

Peter, thanks for the great video's.

[David Wright]

Great stuff, Curly played like no one else, his drive in his playing has always been just one of the many things I loved about his playing..

[Bill Miller]

I notice that he had his C6 tuning on the front neck. I've never seen that before. Wonderful playing.

[Archie Nicol R.I.P.]

Check out the Johnny High clips. Our own Mr. Reece Anderson on steel. Great stuff!

Arch.

[Roger Shackelton]

When Curly Chalker moved to Nashville in the late 1960s he didn't play the E-9th tuning at that time. He did learn it in short order, to be able to get recording sessions.

On his first album, "BIG HITS ON BIG STEEL" I believe
Curly played a FENDER 2000 PSG.


ROGER

[Gary Walker]

Peter, a great contribution to the Forum. Curly played so much, yet we have so little to visualize his unique style. Were it not for Mike's efforts to preserve Curly's gift on DVD, we would a lot poorer to see Curls in action. It's a shame we don't have more of Curly's prime in the 60s and 70s when he was untouchable.
As for his placing of necks on all the brands he played, my '75 MSA Classic D-12 was also setup with them reversed as my preference was more toward the C6 playing. I remember the old TNN "Texas Connection" program, there was a great player with a D-12 ShoBud and he also prefered the neck reversal.

[Jim Walker]

As a steel player here in Southern Alabama, not a gig goes by that someone does not ask me if I ever heard of Curly Chalker or Julian Tharp. Down here these guys are considered musical Gods. Well, actually thats applicable globally but because they were born and raised here it has extreme significance. I hear some great stories from time to time.

JW

[Bobby Boggs]

This one's pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_TJVdoCz4

[Bill Stafford]

And now, down in south Alabama, there is another rising steel player-Gordon Dodson. Gordon plays a 14 string EXCEL with Julian's tuning. Gordon's neighbors, when he was growing up, were the Tharpes and Chalkers. Gordon is a hit at our Deep South Steel shows here on the MIssissippi coast and will be a feature on our June 20 show. And hopefully he will bring his eleven year old niece to play her steel also. She received a standing ovation at our last program. So proud of these players.
Glad to see Curly getting this well deserved attention. He was the best-ABOSOLUTLY!!
Bill Stafford

[Paul Wade]

here is more c.c listen to the second tune wow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_TJVdoCz4