Genre: Slack-Key Guitar
Slack-key guitar is a unique Hawaiian form that features a steel-stringed guitar with special tuning played in a finger-picked style. Guitars came to the islands in several waves, first with European sailors, then with Mexican and Spanish cowboys who were brought to the island to control an overpopulation of cattle, then finally with the Portuguese in the 1860s, who introduced the steel string guitars that are popular with slack-key players today. (read more)
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Featured Albums (view all Slack-Key Guitar albums)
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Ray Kane: The Legendary Ray Kane: Complete Early Recordings
2003 Hana Ola -
Sol Hoopii, Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette: Classic Hawaiian Steel Guit...
2007 Origin Jazz Library
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