Tag Archives: Four Giants of Swing

Harold Lee “Curly” Chalker is definitely a departed great from the pedal steel acoustic guitar, referred to as “Curls” to his friends and known surely by his sound, if not actually by his name, to mobs of nation music fans. Chalker reached an enormous audience playing metal acoustic guitar on …

Record. A 1976 Traveling Fish session offering Joe Venuti, Eldon Shamblin, Curly Chalker and Jethro Melts away.

Because the mandolinist within the vintage country comedy duo Homer & Jethro, Kenneth Burns up was among the finest instrumentalists of his era, yet lots of people by no means realized that fact. Behind the united states hayseed garb, the hick patter, as well as the outrageous parodies of well-known …

Although renowned among the world’s great practical jokers (he once called a few dozen bass players with an alleged gig and asked them showing up making use of their instruments in a occupied street corner simply therefore he could view the resulting chaos), Joe Venuti’s true importance to jazz is …

Within a distinguished career that spanned over 50 years, guitarist and arranger Eldon Shamblin lent his considerable talents to numerous of country’s biggest stars, including a ten-year stint in another of the best band’s ever, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys. Signing up for the music group in 1937, the self-taught guitarist …