Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele and Guitar

Artist: Roy Smeck
Label: Yazoo
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351015228
EAN: 0016351015228
ASIN: B000000G7R

Release Date: 1992-09-15

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Early Hawaiian Music
Ukulele Tragedies and Triumphs
Banjos & Ukuleles
Guitar Innovators
My Guitar Heroes

Tracks:

12th Street Rag
Frettin' Blues
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
Limehouse Blues
Nifty Pickin'
Tough Pickin'
Slippery Fingers
Steel Guitar Rag
Tiger Rag
Guitarese
Farewell Blues
Ukulele Bounce
Bugle Call Rag
Laughing Rag

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Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 2
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Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 1
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Customer Reviews:

A WHIZ!.......2006-08-12

Roy Smeck could play any type of stringed instrument and play it like a man posessed. This CD covers the years 1926-49. He was truly a guitar whiz, and you will be amazed by his dexterity! If you like this type of music, you will probably also enjoy the music of Sol Hoopi and "King" Benny Nawahi.

Dazzling, fireball fingerpicking.......2002-11-13

Hotshot trick guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Roy Smeck tore up the Vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and early '30s, playing a dazzling mix of jazz, blues and Hawaiian-style music on guitar, banjo, mandolin and ukulele. He also became a world-famous author of countless music instruction books... This CD samples some of his best Hawaiian-style recordings of the 1930s, ranging from straight Hawaiian music to ragtime-y material and jazzy flights similar to Django Reinhardt's early stuff. Cool record, though you have to be really into instrumental material to sit through the whole disc. Nice sound quality, too!

........2000-01-21

Four decades before Jimi Hendrix played guitar with his teeth, Roy Smeck was biting the strings on America's vaudeville circuit. An astonishing instrumentalist already, Smeck had to compensate for his lack of a singing voice by developing jokes and visual guitar gimmicks. Among his tricks were simulating a banjo duet on a single banjo, or playing Yiddish, Chinese or Scottish instrumental versions of "Yes Sir, That's My Baby." Roy could play anything with strings on it, and he could do it upside down, behind his back, or both. Eventually Hollywood discovered him and he was featured in the first talking picture ever. Ironically, "talkies" proved to be the downfall of vaudeville, and with it went Smeck's career. But to this day, Smeck remains America's original guitar hero. His virtuosity is rivaled by few, and this superb collection by Yazoo features 14 intrumentals with nothin' fancy but incredible playing.

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