5.0 out of 5 stars
Slack Key Enthusiast Must Buy, January 16, 2012
This review is from: The Legendary Ray Kane: Old Style Slack Key (Audio CD)
Produced by George Winston, this disc has slack-key enthusiasts around the world drooling - this is the one they have been waiting for. The complete classic early recordings made by the legendary Ray Kane playing "old style" slack-key guitar. For his tireless work perpetuating and promoting slack-key he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Folk Heritage Fellowship, America's highest honor for a traditional artist, and he was also awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts. The last track "Auwe" is featured in the film score/soundtrack The Descendants. Starring George Clooney,The Descendants is the first mainstream American movie scored exclusively with Hawaiian music, most of it created by acknowledged masters of the genre, both modern and classical. The filmmakers sought to make a movie with a distinctly Hawaiian flavor, and the music was a crucial component. It serves as an eye-opening introduction to some of Hawaiian music's greatest and most essential artists. And Ray Kane is one of those greatest and most essential.
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