Slidin' on the Frets: The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Phenomenon

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Yazoo
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351205629
EAN: 0016351205629
ASIN: B00004TE0Y

Release Date: 2000-06-13

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Listmania:

Early Hawaiian Music
The Secret Museum of Surabaya Jackie, Pt One
Images, Sounds, and Words of the 20's, Pt. 1
Best of the Hawaiian Guitar

Tracks:

My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua - Kanui & Lula
Pame Sti Honoloulou - Bezos' Hawaiian Orchestra
Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away - Oscar Woods
Milenberg Joys - Rodney Rogers' Red Peppers
My Little Blue Heaven - Jimmie Tarlton
Why My Craf Vex With Me - Emery Cournard
Down In Waikiki - Eddy's Hawaiian Serenaders
Honolulu Stomp - H.M. Barnes And His Blue Ridge Ramblers
U Like, Noa Like - Tau Moe's Hawaiian Jazzites
Mindinao March - Honolulu Players
Everybody Does It In Hawaii - King Oliver And His Orchestra
Ghost Dance - Truett And George
You'll Never Find A Daddy Like Me - Nelstone's Hawaiians
La Portena Es Una Papa - Les Loups
Has My Gal Been Here - Casey Bill
Smiles - Jimmy Yates' Boll Weevils
Clowin' The Frets - Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio
Caresses Venitiennes - Gino Bordin Hawaiian Orch.
Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
The Cat's Whiskers - Patt Patterson And His Champion Pep Riders
Happy Hawaiian Blues - Hawaiian Songbirds
Drifting And Dreaming - Lawson's Hawaiians
Sliding On The Frets - Andy Sannella

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Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Steel Guitar Recordings of the 1920's
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 1
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 2
Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937

Customer Reviews:

Hot-cha Hawaiian style - where the humuhumunukunukuapua'a go swimming by.......2006-11-26

First of all, if you like the kind of stuff that R. Crumb collects and performs (see my other reviews) make a beeline for this disc, it is prime, prime hot playing from the 20's & 30's. There's something for everyone here, from the wistful version of Jimmie Tarlton's "My Little Blue Heaven" to the seedly blues of Oscar Woods ("Don't Sell It - Don't Give It Away") to the jazz of King Oliver and many other styles. There is an appearance by Nelstone's Hawaiians who also cut the mustard enough to appear on Harry Smith's landmark "Anthology of American Folk Music". Among the many gems here are some of the wildest old time recordings ever made, such as a scorching 1927 version of "Milenberg Blues" by Rodney Rogers' Red Peppers (the original was co-written by Jelly Roll Morton). The hands-down winner in the totally unhinged department is the spastic "Pame Sti Honoloulou" by a Greek orchestra with slide guitars, bouzouki, ukeleles & frantic incomprehensible yodeling. Regardless of the setting or style, the playing on each song - all by different artists - is uniformly brilliant, passionate and thrilling. There aren't many compilation discs out there with this level of musicianship from start to finish, and the international scope of the groups involved shows just how far-reaching the Hawaiian craze was in the early 20th century. This is a great disc to explore if you already appreciate bottleneck blues and pedal steel guitar and want to hear something completely different that predated both of those styles.

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