Curly Chalker

[Archie Nicol R.I.P.]

I've been asked to repost this here. So here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nn7ftropRg&mode=related&search=

[Bill Maynard]

Archie:
Thanks for posting this great Chalker video.
He is so well respected and so missed in today's steel guitar music scene.

Bill Maynard
Green Bay, WI

[Al Marcus]

Thanks for the old video of Curly. Just to remind us...al



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[Bryan Bradfield]

In the close-up, it appears that Curley's bar does not have a fully rounded nose. The bar appears to have the edge rounded, but with a flat end.
Is this common today, or was it in that earlier era, ot is this just a Chalker thing?

[Chris LeDrew]

That just slays me........cool as a cucumber, the lot of 'em. Awesome. Thanks for posting it again.

[Bill Maynard]

Did any one notice the shortness of Curly's thumb pick and the angle of attack on the finger picks. He certainly had perfection in these areas to get all that sound from the C6th neck....

[Bill Maynard]

This to me indicates a great tribute to Curly Chalker when you all will note that the viewings of his version of "Steelin the Blues" has almost reached 5,000 viewers already.....Thanks Archie for bringing this one to the fore front......I would think at this point this is the most watched steel video on You Tube.......

Bill

[Bill Maynard]

Curly's video has had 5,571 hits as of today. That has to be a milestone in anyone's book....Once again, thanks Archie for bringing it to everyone's attention.

This is one stylist who is one of the most appreciated steel player whose sound is the one of a kind.....

Bill

[Charles Curtis]

Does anyone know if a DVD of this entire show exists?

[Bill Maynard]

Curly's video has now been seen by 6,412 viewers. This has got to be a record watching don't you agree?

Bill

[Roger Kelly]

Here's another short clip of Curly.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBIgG9TuSyk&mode=related&search=

[Archie Nicol R.I.P.]

I think it was something round about 156 when it was first posted.

Arch.

[Archie Nicol R.I.P.]

I don't know if the chap who posts these on youtube is a member here. I would love more like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uusgBe0T ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtaN1tu ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fmoHKQbjjg

They seem to be fillers in the show. Forget the show! Fill it with Jimmy and Curly.

Why am I excited, when they look so cool?

Ah, well.

Arch.

[Dave Mudgett]

Here's one from Hee Haw with Buck and Ray Charles, Curley with a nice steel solo on the back neck - I assume E9:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=546fC14gejo

[Dan Keough]

I'm a steel player from Alaska. Absolutely love Curly Chalker. My all time favorite. Very inventive. Never got to meet him. I have played with Emmons and with Thumbs once or twice but never met Chalker unfortunately. I wish that more steel players would use different tunings and styles like they used to.
Thanx,
Dan Keough

[Bill Maynard]

For the what's it worth department...Curly's Steelin the Blues video is nearing 9,000 viewings. That is a worthy record number for this late great steel guitarist.

He is missed, respected and his music will live on forever in our hearts....Great stylist in every form....

Bill

[Archie Nicol R.I.P.]

Thanks, again. Sleepycreek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDstoI9Ofw

[Bill Maynard]

Anyone know if they still make the Curly Chalker Volume Pedal any more? I need it was something special but never seen one. Would someone describe to me what it is and how it worked? Thanks...Bill

[John McGlothlin]

Curly Chalker has been my favorite steel guitarist for a lot of years.....I heard him for the first time on the Hee Haw show back in the seventies and then I bought his famous album...More Ways To Play which includes Steelin The Blues and since I watched the video the other day...I have been practicing that song. I have an old MSA Classic D-10

[Charles Curtis]

Right at the beginning of Curly's "run" on "Blue Blue Day", above, the audience starts to applaud; he was that great.

[Charles Curtis]

Does anyone know any of Curly's history in regard to his beginnings? Did he study theory, etc.?

[Bill Maynard]

Over 11,000 views....Man this is just wonderful and a great tribute to our late and great Curly Chalker...His music will always live on and be a part of our musical lives.

[Bill Cunningham]

Mr. Curtis,

in Tom Bradshaw's interview and biography that is part of the Counterpoint album, Curly learned from a jazz piano player, Jack Ashley, who was part of Bill Wimberly's band with him in Witchita in the mid 1950's.

He was only able to apply these learnings when he went to work with Wade Ray around 1959 and more so with Hank Penny after Wade. He said Wade was the one that really pushed him into what became his style.

I just happen to have that album out of the closet recently converting it to a CD. Hence the details.

[Jim Phelps]

Curly himself told me that when he was young he used to play trumpet, and that he often thought in terms of big-band jazz-type horn lines, I think that's one thing that contributed to developing his amazing jazz-chord style.

[Charles Curtis]

If we only knew Curly's thought processes of just how he got from, "point A to point B"; it just seems that he mastered both tunings so well. Maybe he was temperamental at times like a lot of other genius's have been; maybe he just pushed himself to the limit.