Hank Thompson---My Little Red Wagon

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 19 Apr 2010 5:11 pm

Can anyone identify the guitar player & the steel guitar player?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSj6ALN ... re=related

Roger

Bill Maynard · Post by **Bill Maynard** » 19 Apr 2010 5:48 pm

I believe that was Hank picking like the Travis style and the steel picker was Curly Chalker.

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 19 Apr 2010 6:29 pm

The guitar player sounds very different.

Seems like the steel player may be Jim Murphy

Roger

Lonnie Portwood · Post by **Lonnie Portwood** » 19 Apr 2010 7:54 pm

The guitar player was , no doubt, Merle Travis himself in person!! I do believe, don't you know!!!

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 19 Apr 2010 9:06 pm

I wonder where and when this was recorded. The whole pr0duction sounded very disconnected with instruments playing over each other. Sometime even the "Greats' have a bad day !

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 20 Apr 2010 7:25 pm

Billy.i don't have the LP. So I can't say for sure. But I'm thinking 71-ish. In Nashville. At which studio. I have no idea. Maybe this will bump it to someone that knows for sure.

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Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 22 Apr 2010 1:04 pm

I have the 1973 Dot LP in my collection, and there were no musician credits given.

I'm guessing that no one wanted any!

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 25 Apr 2010 3:44 pm

The one and only Curly Chalker is handling the steel.

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 1 May 2010 9:58 pm

Gary has it -
It's undoubtedly
Curly Chalker.

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 2 May 2010 3:45 pm

Odell Martin did a lot of Travis pickin' on Hank's sessions, could be him here.

John Floyd · Post by **John Floyd** » 3 May 2010 5:33 am

The Guitar Player Sounds A Great Deal Like Jackie Phelps Or It Could have Been Curly on Guitar Also. Curly was an Accomplished 6 String Finger Picker and Owned a Gibson ES- 355 TD. I'll bet Gregg Galbraith knows the answer for sure.

It sure isn't Merle Travis, The Tone is all wrong. Isn't Travis's sound.

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 3 May 2010 1:31 pm

Sounds like Curley Chalker to me also, very fluid left hand.

winston · Post by **winston** » 3 May 2010 5:14 pm

I think Gary Walker is right. Sounds like Odell to me. Winston May

Tom Keller · Post by **Tom Keller** » 9 May 2010 9:03 am

Sounds like Hank doing his own guitar playing.This style of tune was something that Hank could have easily performed live or in the studio. Hank and Merle were picking buddies. Could of been Chalker on steel. Hank and Merle were explored in a thread on the chetboard awhile back.

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