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The Acoustic Guitar Thread

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Deacon

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Okay, bought new strings and a tuner, I’m going to pull my guitar out of the closet and learn to pick.
I’m sure it’s as easy as they make it look. :rolleyes:

Rob
 
KenH

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Anyone heard of slack key guitar-style? Some songs come up on my Pandora. Very pretty. This is called “Kohala Medley” by Sonny Lim.

 
John of Japan

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KenH said:
Anyone heard of slack key guitar-style? Some songs come up on my Pandora. Very pretty. This is called “Kohala Medley” by Sonny Lim.

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Thanks for posting this. I've got a CD of slack key guitar music from when we were in Hawaii on furlough from Japan. We had a supporting church there--tough duty, but someone has to do it. :Cool Anyway, slack key is a unique sound, and I like it. In fact, the CD is of the Lim family as a I recall, and I think it has this song on it.
 
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KenH

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Thanks for posting this
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I have several stations set up on Pandora based originally on various acoustic guitar artists - Nathan Salsburg, Norman Blake, Dan Crary, Adam Snider, John Fahey, Jim Henry&Brooks Williams, Paul Johnson. However, over time they have all come to sort of play a lot of the same songs based on which songs I give a thumbs up to. :Biggrin
 
KenH

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This song by Jake White - "If You Could Hie To Kolob" - is actually a Mormon hymn, so the lyrics are full of bad theology, but the tune itself is beautiful.

 
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KenH

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I guess while on the subject of Mormon hymns, here is another one I came across a few years ago - "O My Father" - by Ryan Tilby, which is lovely and which I also found a version of on the Internet with the lyrics sung - awful theology but this guitar version and the version I have with the lyrics sung are so pretty. You might recognize the melody as a Christian hymn, "I Will Sing of My Redeemer", which is usually sung at a faster pace.

 
KenH

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Sean Smith - "What Once Was Will Be"

I have the album version of this song on a wonderful album called "Berkeley Guitar".

 
KenH

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Do you young whippersnappers know the name Jim Stafford? Here is a unique number by him, starting with "Malaguena," stopping for a joke, then going into "Classical Gas" with (get this!) "Flight of the Bumblebee" in the middle of it:

One of my college roommates was a semipro on the guitar, and he taught me "Classical Gas," which I still enjoy playing once in a while but have never really mastered. Just in case you younger guys don't know "Classical Gas," it was actually a hit song by Mason Williams on the pop music circuit in 1968 when I was in high school. Imagine that! Classical guitar updated and a top hit.
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Here Jim Stafford is at 73. Good stuff!

 
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