changed so much of American music. Bennie Nawahi started as a teenager working with Sol Hoopil, graduated as a ukelele virtuoso to the mainland Vaudeville circuit and went on to record prolifically with jazz, country (he worked in 1932 with Roy Rogers) and Hawaiian bands. Lovingly produced and annotated by Roberty Armstrong, the 16 cuts feature Bennie’s dexterous staccato attack and amazing string bending technique on guitar on such great tunes as “Singing in the Bathtub”, “My Little A-1 Brownie” (with the other King Bennie, Goodman on clarinet), “Manua Kea” and “May Day is Lei Day” in Hawaii. Great stuff.
