Steel Guitar Hawaiian Style
''Making this album was a real kick for me!! Nostalgia is especially meaningful when it applied to Hawaiian music, so I thought it would be good to show how steel guitar sounded in the "old days"; those times before the revolutionary introduction of electric guitars then to the first electric and into modern sounds, and stylings. The old National, German silver resonator guitar was the steel guitar in the 20's and early 30's, being designed to make the instrument louder by using resonator cones, etc. The first steel guitar I ever heard was one of these played by a Hawaiian in a tent show that came through my home town in Ohio. I never forgot it and that same plaintive sound lives again in this album. In order to keep the sound pure and authentic, all instruments in the band were acoustic and they were played by some of Hawaii's finest:''