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Tag Archives: Hawaiian music
Various artists’ Hula Blues: Vintage Steel Guitar Instrumentals from the ’30s and ’40s
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. About a decade ago I was turned on to the wonderful musical possibilities of the lap steel guitar. It’s basically a slab of wood (or occasionally cast metal) with six to 10 strings, tuned … Continue reading
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James Hill’s On the Other Hand and A Flying Leap
James Hill is a ukulele player. “Plunk, a-plunk-a-plunk … ” that’s what you’re thinking isn’t it? James Hill is 23 years old. He graduated from the University of British Columbia’s School of Music, where he studied violin and viola. He … Continue reading
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John King’s Royal Hawaiian Music, and Langley Ukulele Ensemble’s The Pacific Ukulele Connection & Strings Attached
Aah, Hawaiian music. It’s one of my guilty pleasures. In fact, I don’t feel that guilty about it at all. At Green Man Review we’ve looked at quite a bit of Hawaiian music in the past. Steel guitar, slack key … Continue reading
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Ozzie Kotani’s To Honor A Queen: the Music of Lili’uokalani, and Led Kaapana & Bob Brozman’s In the Saddle
Legend has it that Spanish and Mexican cowboys brought acoustic guitars to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1800s. The native Hawaiians acquired some of these guitars and developed uniquely inventive techniques for playing them. Influenced by their own traditional chants … Continue reading
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Langley Ukulele Ensemble’s Our Hawaiian Heart, The Enchanted Ukulele, Ukulele Family Album: 20th Anniversary Edition and Ukulele: the legend continues; James Hill, Playing it Like it Isn’t
Arthur Godfrey and George Formby are not names that come up as major inspirations to musicians anymore. People hardly remember them at all. But George Harrison was a big fan. It is said that George Harrison had a ukulele in … Continue reading
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