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title: "Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Acoustic Steel Guitar Classics from the 1920's"
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# Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Acoustic Steel Guitar Classics from the 1920's

**Brand:** king bennie nawahi
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Hawaiian String Virtuoso: Acoustic Steel Guitar Classics from the 1920's

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A bit of everything
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2004*

I love this disc, to put it bluntly. I'm not any sort of expert on any of the various Hawaiian musics, but I have a number of discs and this one is my favorite (so far). A few years ago at a Led Kaapana concert the woman behind me said she had something like 400 Hawaiian albums. She was way (and I mean waaaay) beyond me in terms of her breadth and depth of Hawaiian knowledge, but that never stopped me from writing a review. =)For me, the magic of King Bennie is that he has it all. He's up on that top rung of steel guitar playing with Sol Hoopii, but he also has that Vaudeville quality of being an excellent entertainer. His music is so much fun! This is music for your whole body. I think it's impossible to listen to this disc and not be tapping and grooving along with it almost the entire time.The U.S.A. lost something when the television became the standard of entertainment (at least for many people). King Bennie had something that you don't often find anymore. Today a musician is serious, or they are fun. They are a virtuoso, or they are a folky or a rocker. Or maybe they don't even play anything at all and everything is slick production. The boxes and parameters for any "one" performer oftentimes seem to be smaller today, but not so for Bennie. He may play a slow, touching blues, or he may play the goofiest, funniest, stupid little song and pluck out a gorgeous little solo right in the middle of it. He may play a lonesome old hula, or some Vaudeville shtick with an obnoxious, laughing kazoo solo wailing away. If King Bennie was a tv show, he'd be a sitcom one minute, a drama the next, and still have time to play a gorgeous, melodic solo that hits you like your favorite Roots or Lonesome Dove-quality miniseries.I think the comparisons to Django are unfortunate, for both Bennie and Django. It strikes me as being made for no other reason than they were both guitarists who recorded before WWII, because that is where the similarities end. Yes Django often played faster, but Bennie was a more melodic player. There is no comparision to be made in terms of tone, and Bennie was a fantastic slide player so that is a whole other dimension right there. If you are dead-set on wanting some sort of King Bennie and a straight string-swinger comparison, the only apt comparision I'd say is to Oscar Aleman. Not because they play similarly, but because they both obviously had so much fun. There is certainly more of a sense of unabashed enjoyment coming from the musics of Oscar and Bennie than there is from Django's music. I'm not taking anything away from Django, I'm just saying that his music generally sounds as if he took himself so seriously that "fun" was beneath him, musically speaking. Beyond that, Bennie pre-dates both of them. He was truly a brilliant musician.Bottomline: Take this music for what it is. Fantastic Vaudevillized string-swinging hula-blues played by one of the best steel guitarists of all time (that I know of so far).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Get up and Dance.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015*

This is a jumpin' collection of tunes....

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wish I could give this more stars... :-)
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2002*

An outstanding collection of rare old 78s featuring this jazz-oriented hotshot picker from Honolulu.  As a young man, Nawahi hit the mainland vaudeville circuit, and became one of the most celebrated Hawaiian instrumentalists of the 1920s, initially billed as the "king of the ukulele" (hence the lifelong nickname).  Here he is heard in a variety of settings, performing with his own band on famous numbers such as "Tickling The Strings" and "My Girl Of The South Sea Isles", and  with various jazzy stringband combos.  This album was put together from the collections of several members (and associates) of the Cheap Suit Serenaders, so it's no surprise to hear Nawahi's version of "Singin' In The Bathtub", which the Serenaders covered in the early 1970s.  There are plenty of other great novelty tunes, some traditional Hawaiian songs, and even some country material with Nawahi plinking out sweet accompaniment.  This album is especially nice for how well it presents Nawahi's personal style, assembling his material as a cohesive whole rather than as a few dazzling gems on a Hawaiian compilation, as it's usually heard.  Great stuff, highly recommended!

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