“I got into slack key strictly for the love of it,” he explains. “I started living out in Hana back in the ’80s and I heard a lot of slack key mostly on albums. Probably the first album I heard was Gabby Pahinui’s ‘Brown Album.’ T
Uncle George played the slack key guitar and sang vocals during the prelude and the sacrament portion of the service, as the congregation shared in the symbolic breaking of bread and wine—representing the body and blood of Christ.
What a great tour! Our longest, most grueling day was driving from our dear friendsʻ home in Virginia all the way to Boston, an 8-hour drive, and then playing 2 back to back shows at Club Passim.