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Curly Chalker Big Hits on Big Steel. Never heard it before until this weekend. A friend shared a copy with me. It must be my favorite because I've listened to it at least 10 times this weekend! Just unreal! What a player he was. I've heard other records of his but like this one the best.

Did he use a long scale Fender 1000 through a Fender Bassman? Would love to hear more info/stories/details about the session.

It's way up there for me, too, as far as steel records go.

His playing on Wolverton Mountain through a Leslie and The Race Is On kill me.

I wonder if this was tuning he used for the recording.

Reliable sources tell me he used a Fender 2000 (D10) guitar, and the tuning used on the album was C6th with an "E" on top

It's pretty obvious Curls was not a fan of "whiny" sounds!

Yes Donny after listening carefully I thought I heard something lower than low F.....

FWIW. My favorite Chalker LP.
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This is the album that made me buy a double neck!!!I love Curly's dynamics in TipToeing, actually I love everything on this album..JS

Bobby Boggs wrote:FWIW. My favorite Chalker LP.
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Mine too!

still available on Amazon.



I just downloaded Big Hits on Steel Guitar from one of those blogspot blogs, can't remember which one though.

I got this album in 1966 and with all the albums since, this is my favorite of all of them. Yes, that Fender 2000 never sounded better in anyone's hands. I don't think he had any knee levers to do all of this, either.

What does FWIW stand for?

for what it's worth