Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette - Classic Hawaiian Steel Guitar 1933-34Sol Hoopii is considered to be one of the greatest Hawaiian steel guitar players ever. He was the first Hawaiian guitarist to incorporate jazz improvisation into his playing and his style was very influential to other steel guitarists in all genres, including early western swing electric steel players. These recordings he made on acoustic steel guitar with his Novelty Quartette are the last before he switched to the electric guitar and represent the

Such is the inner power of the music that it takes on a more expressive hue when performed by a full string orchestra as on this recording

his sensibility

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In this third action-packed season

but prior to that he completed an apprenticeship at Lee Perry's Black Ark resulting in this solo LP

He achieves this and more on Contrary Mary

Bonded by a love of psychedelic music and that of rhythms that are irresistible to animals that dance and those that don't

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it still bears the unmistakable stamp of one of stoner rock's most identifiable and unique voices

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Hayes MacArthur and featuring appearances by Lin Shayne