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Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Acoustic Steel Guitar Classics from the 1920's
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About Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Acoustic Steel Guitar
Amazon.com Along with Sol Hoopii, King Bennie Nawahi was the undisputed master of Hawaiian steel guitar music in the 1920s and '30s. His lyrical playing and virtuosic solos were as jazzy as the guitar playing of Django Reinhardt and his repertoire ranged from island tunes to Tin Pan Alley to the blues. It's hard to imagine that the same guy performing the slow and sentimental "Mauna Kea" could churn out a rollicking number like "Dinah" (here with the Red Devils), but Nawahi possessed a versatility and proficiency that few instrumentalists could match (in the '20s, he was even crowned "King of the Ukulele" for his numerous wins in stateside uke contests). On Charles B. Smith's "My Little A-1 Brownie," he juggles steel guitar, mandolin, standard guitar, and harmonica solos on the same tune (Benny Goodman did the clarinet solo). Nawahi is a legendary figure in Hawaiian music history, and liner notes by Robert Armstrong (whose Cheap Suit Serenaders would cover the Hawaiian's "Singing in the Bathtub" five decades after its release) tell the entire story. A great disc. --Jason Verlinde Product Description Bennie Nawahi was one of the true masters of the Hawaiian steel guitar, ukulele and just about any instrument with strings on it. This album covers Bennie's singing and instrumental work on native Hawaiian melodies, the blues, jazz, pop and rural music he heard on the mainland, and on his own dazzling instrumental compositions.
