Nullary Sources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFrJy8td4A

Gabby Pahinui is widely loved as one of the fathers of Hawai’ian music. As both a solo musician and a member of the Sons of Hawaii, his mix of slack-key guitar and traditional Hawai’ian songs was majorly influential on many who would follow. So that’s why we’re posting him twice! That and how he’s awesome, of course.

This is an old recording I’ve never heard before, “Wai O Ke Aniani.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Xir0eEDV4

In 1946, Gabby Pahinui recorded what may have been the first slack key guitar record, “Hi’ilawe”. Here he is performing it in the documentary “Slack Key & Other Notes”, which is sadly apparently not for sale.