Tag Archives: The Pahinui Brothers

Gabby Pahinui helped to lay down the building blocks for Hawaiian slack essential guitar playing. Although he documented only 1 internationally released record, Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Music group, Vol. 1, his impact is still shown in the playing of Hawaiian slack essential players and American guitarists including John Fahey, Leo …

Carrying on the tradition of ‘slack major’ Hawaiian guitar music spearheaded by their pops, Gabby Pahinui, his offspring also have progressively melded their island appear with components of soul, country and reggae. They’re termed a ‘string music group’ by dint of the use of acoustic guitar, ukulele, steel acoustic guitar …

Hawaiian slack crucial guitarist and songwriter Dennis Kamakahi 1st surfaced in 1973 as an associate of ukelele virtuoso Eddie Kamae’s group the Sons of Hawaii, updating guitar legend Pops Gabby Pahinui. Kamakahi’s tenure using the group lasted some 22 years, where time he had written some traditional hulas including “Pua …

The next oldest son of influential slack key guitarist Gabby Pahinui, Wayne ‘Bla’ Pahinui has adopted in his father’s footsteps. A forward thinking slack crucial guitarist, in his personal right, Pahinui is well known for his special phrasing. As he described in a middle-’90s interview, “I love to stretch records …