Hank Thompson with chalker, YouTube

Willie Sims · Post by **Willie Sims** » 12 Mar 2014 10:29 am

This is the best or one of the best chalker rides I have heard. It is on hank Thompson record of stirring up the ashes . You can find it on YouTube.
Willie SIMS

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 12 Mar 2014 11:42 am

Great one Willie! Amazing fidelity and natural sound on those old recordings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBHOCFfZv98

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 12 Mar 2014 2:49 pm

I believe this recording was made in the early 1960s, but Curly's guitar sounds like he is playing

a 10 string PSG.

Roger

Tommy Auldridge · Post by **Tommy Auldridge** » 25 Mar 2014 8:55 am

He is definitely playing 10 string C6th. WITH pedals.
There were pedals at that time. Tommy.....

Bob Tuttle · Post by **Bob Tuttle** » 25 Mar 2014 3:39 pm

When I saw Chalker with Hank Thompson in Southern Calif. in about '63 or '64, he was playing a blonde Fender 1000 (D-8)through two 4X10 tweed Bassman amps. He had the C6th on the inside neck and the outside neck didn't have strings on it. All the steel players in Southern Calif. who weren't working that night, were gathered around the end of the bandstand watching Curly.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 25 Mar 2014 5:29 pm

boy....they sure let him get away with a lot of stuff on this record! lol
i bet producers and him butted heads big time on a reg basi!

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 30 Mar 2014 2:31 pm

Curly was still playing the 1000 D-8 here, which was cut sometime in '63. He then went to a 2000 sometime in '64 D-10.
This guitar didn't have much quality tone, in the 400 and 1000, but Fender had improved the P/Us by the time the 800 and 2000 came on the market..
This recording is missing the two bass strings of later D-10 models.. He still got more out of the D-8 than anybody else could.

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Hank Thompson with chalker, YouTube

Hank Thompson with chalker, YouTube

Pedals--YES