How Hawaiian Came into Country

[Alan Brookes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yqyFQ ... ture=share
Doesn't this remind you of the very early country recordings that featured Hawaiian guitarists?
It reminds me of how the steel guitar came into country music.

[Eddie Cunningham]

Hawaiian music was so popular in the twentys & thirtys that the original "Country" musicians had to learn Hawaiian songs to make a living. Pete Kirby =>"Bashful Brother Oswald " , in his life story book , tells how he had to learn Hawaiian music to be able to play in the joints he started in !! Thats all people wanted !! Hank Snows early songs were in a Hawaiian style as was Gene Autrys !! The olde Hawaiian style then carried over into Country !! Now the "Pedal style" is drifting back into Hawaii !! What goes around comes around !! olde geeze AKA Eddie "C"

[Erv Niehaus]

And let's not forget Jerry Byrd!

[Ray Montee]

For sure!
Let's NOT forget Jerry Byrd..........
And another that played his style: HOWARD WHITE of Nashville and in his early days, Billy Robinson.

[Jack Aldrich]

I've been told that it was Jimmie Rodgers that brought the steel guitar into country music. One of his hits was "Everybody Does It In Hawaii". He got a Hawaiian steel player to ply on the record. Then, he did "The One Rose", written by Lannie Mcintire, a Hawaiian, and Mcintire played on that record. Since Jimmie used steel players, the other rising stars of country music in the 30's, Earnest Tubb, Hank Snow, Roy Acuff among them, had steel guitars in their bands. I've read that a lot of the early steelers cane to the steel through a fascination with Hawaiian music. I know from reading biographies that this was true of Leon MacAuliffe, Pete "Oswald" Kirby, Jerry Byrd, and Herb Remington.

[Alan Brookes]

Jimmie Rodgers, the Blue Yodeller, has always been a big influence on me, as he has been for many others. When I posted this topic it was him that I was thinking of. The acoustic steel in the video could have come straight out of a Jimmie Rodgers record.