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Bill Cunningham Member Posts: 381 |
posted 16 December 1999 01:18 PM
Who is generally credited with inventing "chicken pickin" on the E9th? I remember hearing this style when I was a youngster as Lloyd Green played on Lynn Anderson's cut of Rocky Top. Then there's the Crawford and Hicks album...Where does it originate? |
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John Lacey Member Posts: 1843 |
posted 16 December 1999 02:07 PM
Colonel Sanders invented it. |
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Bill cole Member Posts: 694 |
posted 16 December 1999 02:44 PM
I do believe if you go way back in time and really Bobby B. would be a great one to answer this cause he goes way back in time. But way before it was called chicken picken it was called hen scratchin or was it Jim Crawford changed the name form hen scratchin to chicken picken |
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Steve Feldman Member Posts: 2983 |
posted 16 December 1999 04:05 PM
quote: I thought that was cluster pluckin' that he invented... |
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Dennis Detweiler Member Posts: 1700 |
posted 16 December 1999 04:32 PM
Louis Rich |
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Dennis Detweiler Member Posts: 1700 |
posted 16 December 1999 04:33 PM
oops, that would be turkey pickin" [This message was edited by Dennis Detweiler on 12-16-99] |
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Dennis Detweiler Member Posts: 1700 |
posted 16 December 1999 04:33 PM
machine went nuts [This message was edited by Dennis Detweiler on 12-16-99] |
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Porter Fawcett Member Posts: 613 |
posted 16 December 1999 05:22 PM
Dennis your machine didn't go nuts, it chickened out. 
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Lee Baucum Member Posts: 3201 |
posted 16 December 1999 06:22 PM
You guys are all a bunch of quacks!  Lee, from South Texas |
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Charlie Hunter Member Posts: 9 |
posted 16 December 1999 06:54 PM
No,no.Clucks.A bunch of clucks ------------------ |
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Bob Tuttle Member Posts: 774 |
posted 16 December 1999 07:07 PM
This is for the birds Bob |
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Bob Tuttle Member Posts: 774 |
posted 16 December 1999 07:07 PM
Oops [This message was edited by Bob Tuttle on 12-16-99] |
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Jerry Hayes Member Posts: 3306 |
posted 16 December 1999 07:16 PM
To get back on the subject, I don't know who started it but a good early example is Lloyd Green's work on Warner Mack's "The Bridge Washed Out". |
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Hook Moore Member Posts: 1605 |
posted 17 December 1999 04:01 AM
I don`t know who actually started it but no one does it better than Jimmy Crawford and Russ Hicks.......... |
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Bill Ford Member Posts: 1724 |
posted 17 December 1999 11:37 AM
I go with Greene,But Speedy West did a thing long time ago with Jimmy Bryant. Could you call that chicken pikin? Bill Ford ------------------ |
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Bobby B unregistered Posts: 1724 |
posted 17 December 1999 12:08 PM
Be It Known To All Men----I am not a Chicken, pickin' or otherwise  !!!!The first guy I remember doin' what we now call chickin' pickin' was Wayne Gailey in the early sixties out in Vegas. To my knowledge Lloyd and Weldon made it popular in the beginning out of Nashville and then Jimmy C took it to another level. Walter Haynes would know more about it than I do as far as the Nashville sceene goes. BB |
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Ken Williams Member Posts: 581 |
posted 17 December 1999 04:14 PM
I've never seen a chicken pickin'. I've seen a few scratchin' though.(the ground that is) Ken |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 17 December 1999 05:17 PM
Seriously now guys! I'm going to take a wild guess that Chet Atkins invented it. Thinking way back (early '60s), there was a song out called "Yakety Sax", by Nashville saxaphonist Boots Randolph. Soon after, Chet released his version, "Yakety Axe". Though He didn't have the sharp tone that most other pickers had at the time, he did a lot of that style in his version of the song that has come to be known as "chicken-picking". Shortly afterwards, every country guitar player was doing the song. Characteristically, this style is identified by quick staccato notes (1 to 4) interspersed with longer notes. The longer notes often feature a downward gliss. The simplest example that comes to mind is the Roy Nichol's intro on the old Haggard song "Mama Tried". I don't know who the first steel player was that used this style frequently. But if I had to guess, I'd say maybe Ralph Mooney. (Gimme a break...it's Friday!) |
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Dave Van Allen Member Posts: 5369 |
posted 17 December 1999 07:23 PM
quote: but Friday's "fish", not "chicken" |
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Rich Paton Member Posts: 686 |
posted 17 December 1999 10:27 PM
I'd say maybe Ralph Mooney. > Ralph Mooney & James Burton did the tune "Corn Pickin'" long ago..... |
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Bill cole Member Posts: 694 |
posted 18 December 1999 06:46 AM
Yep ya just can't beat ole Bobby B. for general all world knowledge that feller got it all. As far as Chet Atkins goe's he did what was know as Rooster pluckin cause he didn't use no Finger plucks and as far as Norm Hamlet goes Iaint sure if he was steeling corn or shuckin corn now you gotta remember when he was growin up they were taught not to steel |
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frank rogers Member Posts: 711 |
posted 18 December 1999 07:04 AM
Donny, Your definition is right on. I remember the great James Burton being the major "purveyor" of this sound in the early 60's via his work with Rick (Ricky) Nelson and as a session player with other West coast acts including the Monkees. Their early albums featured sone phenomenal J.B. "chicken pickin". It seems as though this distintive style then evolved to the steel guitar and was mastered by the major players of the day, LLoyd Green in particular, as has been already pointed out. |
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Bill Stafford Member Posts: 1347 |
posted 18 December 1999 08:34 AM
One thing for sure, Jerry Byrd would not have. BS and thats no BS. |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 18 December 1999 11:36 AM
Right Frank! I had completely forgotten about James Burton...another great pioneer "chicken-picker". I think this stuff did originate on straight guitar, and got picked up (no pun intended) on the steel. Come to think of it, Ray Flacke did a lot of this stuff on the early Scaggs country stuff too. |
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David C Neal Member Posts: 101 |
posted 19 December 1999 07:47 PM
Well guy's, I can't tell you who started chicken pickin playing, but I can tell you who perfected it. That would undoubtably be Jimmie Crawford. There is no better chicken pickin player that I know. Jimmie just grab's a handful of strings and plucks away... And his new JCH steel guitar is really something else. So if you want to learn some good chicken pickin licks, I know Jimmie is about to launch a new web site that will offer Steel guitar courses available on video & on line. Have A Good Christmas, David C Neal |
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Jimmie Crawford Member Posts: 79 |
posted 19 December 1999 10:11 PM
What's A guy to do? I've been accused of A steel playing banjo player, and A chickin'pickin' player, and I've been playin' around bagpipe flavored steel playing. Does that also make me A windbag? Boy's I don't think so. Boy what A turkey. J C Clucking out. |
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Cairo Zoots Member Posts: 500 |
posted 19 December 1999 10:12 PM
Chicken Pickin originated from the lick done on an old blues tune called "Little Red Rooster", where the lick mimicked the sound of a Rooster errr aaa Chicken, and was then incorporated into everyones' "hot lick" repertoire. ------------------ |
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Rich Paton Member Posts: 686 |
posted 20 December 1999 06:17 AM
originated from the lick done on an old blues tune called "Little Red Rooster" > Best played using a " capon " ? > Who "plucked" the Rooster? |
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Bill cole Member Posts: 694 |
posted 20 December 1999 08:39 AM
I don't know who started it but I betca Jimmy Crawford like many of us can tell you it is bet done while trying to get to the bottom of a pitcher of Gin and Grapefruit juice. One big glass at a time |
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Jimmie Crawford Member Posts: 79 |
posted 22 December 1999 12:07 AM
Now Bill you know I don't drank Unless The BIG E corners me at the ISGC. Don't guess that will happen for a while. |
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Jimmie Crawford Member Posts: 79 |
posted 22 December 1999 12:07 AM
Now Bill you know I don't drank Unless The BIG E corners me at the ISGC. Don't guess that will happen for a while. |
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