wilkey - Posted - 04/19/2019:  07:52:36

WOULD LIKE TO FIND WHERE I COULD GET, BUY OR STEAL THE TABLATURE FOR "Honkey Tonk Angels and CRAZY ARMS:

MarkinSonoma - Posted - 04/19/2019:  11:11:57

We'll start with Honky Tonk Angels. Thanks to Wikipedia here's the history in a nutshell:

"The Wild Side of Life" and "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" are set to an apparently traditional tune used in the song "Thrills That I Can't Forget" recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz in 1925, and more familiarly in the Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" recorded in February, 1929, as well as the Rev. Guy Smith's "Great Speckled Bird"—popularized in 1936 by Roy Acuff.

In addition to Wells' vocals, husband Johnnie Wright played bass guitar and Jack Anglin played rhythm guitar. Paul Warren played fiddle and Shot Jackson played steel guitar, traits prevalent on many of Wells' biggest hits."

So the melody has been appropriated by a number of artists using different lyrics. The Kitty Wells version is likely the most well known.  

Backtrack to Roy Acuff and his version with Brother Oswald on dobro. It became a signature dobro tune for Os. 

Jimmy Heffernan produced an excellent lesson for this classic. Video, tab, backing track. Here is the video sample:

Edited by - MarkinSonoma on 04/19/2019 11:20:57

MarkinSonoma - Posted - 04/19/2019:  11:33:41

Troy has a lesson as well for The Great Speckled Bird. Different take than Jimmy's. One of Troy's early lessons from when he was first starting out.

lessonswithtroy.com/Great-Spec...Song.html

Crazy Arms was co-written by pedal steel legend Ralph Mooney and first became a big hit for Ray Price. I haven't come across any dobro tab for this number.

 

Edited by - MarkinSonoma on 04/19/2019 11:34:56

chipmunk - Posted - 04/19/2019:  14:10:07

Hi Joe...There is a copy of the tab for The Great Speckled Bird in the tab section and Jimmy Warren has the Tab, as well as others on his site oldtimedobro.com/tablature.htm I have a simplified version of crazy arms that I did up a while back and play in the key of D. PM me if you would like a copy. As discussed above by Mark, I have lessons from both Jimmie and Troy and highly recommend both. Al