Slidin' on The Frets - The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Phenomenon

Classic rural, popular and foreign performances on the acoustic steel guitar. This fascinating panorama of acoustic steel guitar performances inspired by the worldwide Hawaiian music craze in the first few decades of the 20th century includes classics from a broad spectrum of musical genres where the Hawaiian acoustic steel took root, featuring jazz, blues, country, vaudeville, and instrumental novelties from the US as well as foreign classics from Thailand, Argentina, France, Greece and more. The roots of what was to become the pedal steel and Dobro in country music or the blues slide and bottleneck guitar can be heard in these rare recordings.