"Somewhere Tonight" - Highway 101

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 9 Feb 2015 1:49 pm

Snow day again in NH so here's today's tab offering. "Somewhere Tonight" is off the album "Highway 101". Nice steel and chickin' pickin' guitar on lots of cuts. I notice both Jay Dee Maness and Tommy Spurlock are listed under "Special Thanks" on the album credits...anyone know who plays on Somewhere Tonight? Enjoy...comments and corrections are always welcome.
Here's the album cut on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS9h00VqKdI

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 9 Feb 2015 4:10 pm

Excellent tab.
Thanks Jeff

Dave Campbell · Post by **Dave Campbell** » 9 Feb 2015 5:59 pm

nice work! thanks for this.

Jay Riddle · Post by **Jay Riddle** » 11 Feb 2015 12:49 pm

Maness played on that track of Highway's first album. Jay

Carol Teston · Post by **Carol Teston** » 13 Feb 2015 8:20 am

excellent Jeff thank you so much

Carol

George Duncan Sypert · Post by **George Duncan Sypert** » 13 Feb 2015 10:55 am

Good job tabbing this out Jeff. Just for fun you might try using string 4 & 6 with the B pedal and then 4 & 5 bring in your A pedal on the intro. I could be wrong but that sounds like the strings he is using to me.

That took a lot of work and is certainly appreciated.

Keep up the great effort.

George

Jeff Evans · Post by **Jeff Evans** » 25 Jun 2020 3:12 am

. . . who plays on Somewhere Tonight?

This is my wonderful, hit-making instrument, which you might have heard on my work with Highway 101 (Somewhere Tonight and others) . . . â€” Tommy Spurlock as posted by Gerald Pierce

Dale Foreman · Post by **Dale Foreman** » 25 Jun 2020 2:16 pm

Pretty sure it’s Jay Dee on that cut! He’s on the forum, as him!

Lafe Brown · Post by **Lafe Brown** » 26 Jun 2020 12:17 pm

Jeff, I've enjoyed all of your tabs, including this one and The Blame. Could you please post your copedent.

Lafe Brown · Post by **Lafe Brown** » 26 Jun 2020 12:18 pm

Jeff, I've enjoyed all of your tabs, including this one and The Blame. Could you please post your copedent.

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 26 Jun 2020 1:44 pm

Hi Lafe, thanks for your post.

I've experimented with a few copedents over the years but for all of the tab I post I've tried to keep things usable for folks with a fairly standard setup. The pedals and levers I've put in bold are what I use for my tab.

My personal setup right now is:

Pedals:
A: string 5 (+1), 10 (+1)
B: string 3 (+1/2), string 6 (+1/2)
C: string 4 (+1), string 5 (+1)
D: (Franklin pedal) string 4 (-1), string 5(-1) string 10 (-1)

Levers:
F: (LKL) string 4 (+1/2), string 8 (+1/2)
D: (LKR) string 4 (-1/2), string 8 (-1/2)
H: (LKV) string 5 (-1/2), string 10 (-1/2)
G: (RKL) string 1 (+1), string 2 (+1/2), string 6 (-1)
E: (RKR) half-stop string 2 (-1/2)
EE: (RKR) fully engaged string 2 (-1), string 9 (-1/2)

Lafe Brown · Post by **Lafe Brown** » 26 Jun 2020 2:34 pm

Thank you very much, Jeff

Buddie Hrabal · Post by **Buddie Hrabal** » 6 Jul 2020 4:53 pm

I talked to my friend Tommy Spurlock last night, I asked him about this...His answer It was him on the recording. Jay Dee did some things on the album but "Somewhere Tonight" belongs to Tommy Spurlock!

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 7 Jul 2020 2:43 am

Thanks, Buddie! I always like to credit the performer on my tab and now we know for sure.

Randall Palmore · Post by **Randall Palmore** » 7 Jul 2020 2:56 pm

Buddie- Thanks clearing that up. I was thinking it was Tommy? Jeff thanks for the tab. Sure would like to see Tommy. I purchased my first D10 from him.. a red 1973 Sho-Bud Professional that he purchased new in Hollywood, I think? What a musician! RP

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