Track Listing

1. Palolo - Sol Hoopi's Trio
2. Fort Street - Madame Riviere
3. Sassy - Kalama's Quartet
4. St. Louis Blues
5. Spanish Shawl - The Three Jacks
6. Rosita
7. Honolulu Bound
8. Black Boy Blues - King Bennie Nawahi
9. Hawaiian Melody
10. White Birds - Hawaiian Orchestra
11. Palolo - Kane's Hawaiinans
12. Melodias Populares Mexicana - Trio de Hawaii
13. Maui - Palakiko & Paaluhi
14. Hula Girl
15. Leilehua
16. Wabash Blues - Tubize Royal Hawaiian Orchestra
17. Lei E - Kalama's Quartet
18. Hawaiian Cowboy - Sol K. Hollywaiians Bright
19. Song of the Range
20. Indiana March
21. Huehue (Hawaiian Hula) - Sam West
22. Mai Givee (Don't Give It Away) - Hoot Gibson
23. Lepe Ulaula - Sam Alama & His Hawaiians
24. Hula, Shake That Thing
25. Na Moku Eha (The Four Islands) - Hoot Gibson
26. Tickling the Strings

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107376 in Music
• Released on: 1993-12-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Authentic, spirited performances: great choice of material.
This album always puts me in a good mood. It is happy, upbeat music, that is never raucous...just simple and melodic. The tenth song, "White Birds", is rather haunting. It is a nice album to have on in the background when you are working quietly or have friends over and want to be able to talk. It creates a positive, festive mood without being nerve wracking at all. Yet it is worthwhile to sit there and listen to it for its own sake, too. I find that I reach for it often.

Positively beautiful recordings!
This is an absolutely stunning and beautiful compilation of music. Very well assembled, this music is stunning in its beauty. At times it is hard to tell the extent that Hawaiian steel guitar players were influenced by southern Delta blues, or the other way around - - but listen for the music lineage between these guitar players in the 30s, to Carl Perkins in the 50s, to Geo. Harrison in the 60s, and treat yourself and others to simply beautiful music.

If I could give this ten stars, I would...
Hot picking, Hawaiian style, drawing on rare discs from acoustic revivalist Bob Brozman's private stash of old 78s. When this album first came out in 1981, it was unique - this is one of the early fonts of Hawaiiana for modern listeners. Brozman's passion is for the early acoustic recordings, before amplified guitars gained popularity and likewise, the music itself shifted into poppier terrain; there's a ragtime-y feel on these old tunes that adds a little bounce which later was smoothed out in favor of swaying-palm steel guitar melodies. Over the years, many of the best songs here were anthologized elsewhere -- especially upbeat novelty numbers like Sol K. Bright's "Hawaiian Cowboy" and Sol Hoopii's "Hula Girl" -- but this album still retains it's unique charm and tight craftsmanship. There are plenty of songs on here that haven't been reissued elsewhere, like tracks by cowboy singer Hoot Gibson and the latin-flavored Trio De Hawaii, as well as a couple of sweet tracks that didn't appear on Arhoolie's fab Kalamas Quartet collection. Highly recommended!