CURLY CHALKER

Instruments: Steel Guitar
Date of Birth: 1933
Place of Birth: Enterprise, Alabama
Date of Death: April 30, 1998

Harold Lee "Curly" Chalker, played steel guitar on "Hee Haw" for 18 years and on recording sessions for top country and pop artists.

He played on Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses" and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer." He played live or in the studio with Willie Nelson, The Gap Band, Ray Price, Little Jimmy Dickens, Leon Russell, Lefty Frizzell, Bill Haley & the Comets and others.

Chalker died Thursday April 30, 1998 (age 66) at a nursing home in Nashville, TN. of a cancer-related brain tumor.