George Kahumoku Jr., apart from being a master slack-key guitar player, has a talent for storytelling.
He's as generous with sharing his experiences as an educator as he is his with his music. Since childhood, he has played slack-key guitar, the distinctive Hawaiian guitar style in which the strings of the instrument are retuned or "slacked" to create new open tunings.
"I come from a family of Hawaiian musicians. . . . I always farmed on the side. I always taught school and I always played music. In Hawaii you need at least three jobs just to survive."
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