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Now that I have that straight in my Pennsylvania Dutch hard head, what is the guitar muted bass notes called that was on the Hank Williams sessions and many others? It may have been stated what it's really called but with all the posts, I've lost track.

As for the earlier use of the technique, if you don't remember hearing it in Hank Williams' sound, shame on you. Sammy Pruitt referred to it-- I think it was in Jerry River's biography of Hank-- as "crack rhythm." That is what I have always called it. As the Drifting Cowboys were Ray Price's band after Hank died, and Ray had been Hank's protege for a short while, it makes sense that you'd hear the same sound on Price's recordings of that period.

It would seem that Bradley refined the simple alternating muted guitar for a precise duplication of the bass lines with an instrument more suited to the sound he was after.

Hope this helps the discussion.

Pic of Danko on a Fender VI: http://theband.hiof.no/articles/fender_bass_vi.html

On a more positive note, I developed a program with my profex II to play tic-tac lines on the lower strings on my C6 neck. It works great. The only problem is: Most Country type tunes that a tic-tac is used on has steel and/or fiddle(s) playing lead lines. It's hard to drop out of the tic-tac line and start playing steel without something sounding like it's "missing."