Product Description

Ledward Kaapana is an incomparable slack key master and Grammy winner. Mike Kaawa is a 12-string maestro and integrator of endless styles that echo jazz, ragtime, cachicachi, and those indefinable transpacific steamer blues. This record captures both men live at the Triple Door in Seattle. Effortless harmony, instant rapport, and unimaginable improvisations.

Track Listing

1. 'Opihi Moemoe
2. Koko'e
3. Slack Key Tuning Demo
4. Slack Key Lullaby
5. He Wehi No Ke Kai
6. Pu'uanahula
7. Moana Chimes/My Yellow Ginger LEi/Radio Hula
8. Kaulana O Lawaihae/Kalena Kai
9. No Ke Ano Ahiahi
10. Killing Me Softly
11. E Ku'u Morning Dew
12. Twelfth Street Rag/Sweet Georgia Brown

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44091 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Awesome Twosome!
Led Kaapana is simply the best Hawaiian slack key player alive and his solo work has been admired by some of the greats, including his hero Chet Atkins and classical master Andres Segovia. While his solo performances are brilliant, the combined energy of Led with 12-string wizard Mike Kaawa kicks it up several notches. They are, truly, a Force of Nature to be reckoned with. They eagerly feed on each other's energy and creativity. This is surely the launch of what will be seen 20 years hence as one of THE great Hawaiian groups...up there with Hui `Ohana and Sons of Hawaii.

It's a live concert, but well engineered so the audience sounds are not distracting. This is, without a doubt, the best thing Led's put out in 20 years!