Post #574679 by Tiki Cowboys on Fri, Feb 4, 2011 12:19 PM

On 2010-04-06 17:21, JOHN-O wrote:
WOW !! "Tiki twang", the influences of Hank Williams, Don Ho, and Howlin' Wolf ??

I'm not sure how others here are going to react to the Country aspect of your music. This isn't "Tiki Music" in the traditional sense, but it is GREAT music.

If you're playing in LA, I'm there !!

If you listen, you here a lot of country music in Hawaiian and Tiki music, for instance the "double stop" break is used. The history of the popular Hawaiian sound was helped to be shaped by mainland musicians in the early to mid 1900's with the inclusion especially of pedal steel and lap steel guitars, also used in both country and hawaiian music.

Now the influence of Jamaican reggae has "Jawaiian" becoming a popular off shoot style of musical stylings cross-pollenating.

Even the great IZ sings "Country Roads" by John Denver.

my 2¢