Bill Wynne
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2014 2:00 am |
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Many of you know that I used to host a podcast – and, later, a radio show – devoted to primarily out of print and rare Hawaiian music. Last year I revived this concept in the form of a blog, and I got so busy maintaining it that I failed to tell my friends at SGF about it – a travesty, especially in light of how heavily I have been hitting the steel guitarists the last few months. (In the last two years I have already written more than 100 articles and posted more than 25 hours of Hawaiian music audio.)
Ho`olohe Hou (Hawaiian for “to listen again”) discusses the music and entertainment scene in Hawai`i for the more than last 100 years. In posts that can be read in five minutes or less – with accompanying audio clips – I tell the stories (and, often, some relatively obscure facts) of the musicians and songs that brought Hawaiian music to international prominence. In recent days I have told in serialized articles the stories of Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs, Charles K.L. Davis, Helen Desha Beamer, Kui Lee, George Paoa, Sonny Kamahele, Ray Kinney, Alfred Apaka, George Kainapau, and Mona Joy. Steel guitarists featured include Mel Abe, Alan Akaka, Tommy Castro, Jules Ah See, Barney Isaacs, Danny Stewart, Andy Iona, Dick McIntire, Sam Koki, Hal Aloma, Sam Makia, Billy Hew Len, and Bobby Nichols. I am currently in the middle of a week-long tribute to singer/songwriter Lena Machado which will include still more sides featuring Andy Iona, Dick McIntire, Tommy Castro, and Billy Hew Len, and the following week will find a week-long tribute to Genoa Keawe with such steel guitar greats as Benny Rogers, Joe Custino, Barney Isaacs, Herbert Hanawahine, and Alan Akaka as well as such obscure steelers as Henry Ka`alekahi and James Camacho. There are items in my vast archives that exist nowhere else – many given to me by the artists themselves to preserve and some (in the last 15 years) which I personally captured live on my many visits to Hawai`i.
Sometimes the blogger is lonelier than the Maytag repairman. I would appreciate it if you would stop by and share your thoughts on this music. The easiest way to find Ho`olohe Hou is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hoolohehou
If you “LIKE” the page and click “Get notifications,” Facebook will notify you whenever there is a new post and sound clips. I have been averaging 2-3 posts a day.
If you’re not a Facebook user, you can find the same content at the original blog website:
http://www.hoolohehou.org
I would really appreciate your time and participation in these conversations. Thanks for taking a look and a listen. Mahalo!
~ Bill Wynne |
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