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Sugar Cane Blues

from More Guitar Stories by Jim Kimo West

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Life in the 1800ʻs for immigrant workers in Hawaiiʻs sugar plantations was not easy. Although American blues was just getting its start on the mainland, Hawaiiʻs multi-ethnic worker population was mashing up language and music. In this tune, slack key meets blues but in a minor key.

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from More Guitar Stories, released August 14, 2020
Kimo: solo acoustic guitar

Tuning: Dm7

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Jim "Kimo" West Los Angeles, California

Jim ʻKimo” West is regarded as one of the world’s foremost Hawaiian “slack key” guitar artists. He is a 2021 Grammy winner for his CD, “More Guitar Stories”, a 2019 Grammy nominee for "Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island and a four-time Na Hoku Hanohano (the Hawaiian ‘Grammy’) nominee.
His music has garnered over seventy-five million plays in streaming media.
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