Wilburn Brothers-Hal Rugg University

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 24 Oct 2019 8:43 am

For those younger steelers. Back in the 1960's I loved everything Hal Rugg did with the Wilburn Brothers. I spent many an 8 hour day running the needle back and forth. It was like going to Rugg college! Bought lots of Wilburn Brother's albums.

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Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 25 Oct 2019 12:28 pm

What a player Hal was. Awesome pickin'

Tony

Alexander Rehfeld · Post by **Alexander Rehfeld** » 26 Oct 2019 2:28 am

Brilliant! Take a look at this clip here from the Wilburn Brothers Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pQObXNIQvo

Bill Ferguson · Post by **Bill Ferguson** » 26 Oct 2019 7:03 am

And if I am not mistaken, it's all PALM blocking.

David Zornes · Post by **David Zornes** » 26 Oct 2019 11:31 am

Thatâ€™s one University I would attend faithfully!

David Gertschen · Post by **David Gertschen** » 27 Oct 2019 1:47 pm

Thanks for posting these great examples...He sure made it look easy!

Jerry Horch · Post by **Jerry Horch** » 27 Oct 2019 2:21 pm

Oh yeah...Pick it, Wilson...

Brett Lanier · Post by **Brett Lanier** » 29 Oct 2019 7:59 pm

Nice one. Here's my personal favorite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX6Zkh0yhU
My buddy has that blond Permanent from the video now. It freaks me out every time i get to play it.

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 30 Oct 2019 3:29 pm

Brett,

Thats a great one and typical Rugg licks. I grew up cutting my teeth on that stuff. I figured I'd tab it for all.

Slow sample click here

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 1 Nov 2019 1:54 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMM42ILPkRA
Here is my favorite Hal Rugg kickoff. He played great on the Wilburn Brothers Show and his playing on Loretta Lynn records was as good as it gets.

Nikolai Shveitser · Post by **Nikolai Shveitser** » 1 Nov 2019 7:59 am

Trying to crack the nut that is "when the tingle becomes a chill" this morning. Pardon the hilarous tablature, but does this look right to the hive mind?

Brett Lanier · Post by **Brett Lanier** » 4 Nov 2019 9:29 am

Hi Ron, are you sure he doesn't play the second string a little earlier on that intro? The pickup always sounded more dissonant to me than just 3,4,5 with pedals.

I'm not a tabber, nor do I have a guitar in front of me but I think I've played it a little differently. On the pickup.. when you drop your pedals, try playing strings 2,3,5 instead of 3,4,5 and tell me what ya think.

*edit*
I remember now. It was 3,4,5 for the two chords (a&b on the second one), then strings 2,3,5 on the 3rd and 4th chords which are on fret 15 and 16. Then on from there... I've heard he didn't have a 4th string lower at that time. Like a lot of Lloyd licks, it helps to use the 2nd string instead of the knee lever to get it to sound right.

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 4 Nov 2019 9:37 am

Brett Lanier wrote:Hi Ron, are you sure he doesn't play the second string a little earlier on that intro? The pickup always sounded more dissonant to me than just 3,4,5 with pedals.

I'm not a tabber, nor do I have a guitar in front of me but I think I've played it a little differently. On the pickup.. when you drop your pedals, try playing strings 2,3,5 instead of 3,4,5 and tell me what ya think.

Brett, see if this makes a difference. I did an update, but we can still kick the ideas around.

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Ron

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 5 Nov 2019 2:21 pm

Here's a followup of using that lick in another intro or break.

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Ron