Post #251423 by thejab on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 12:13 PM

I love the Hillbilly versions of exotica. Some of the great pedal steel players from Western Swing and Country did Hawaiian music as well, like Leon McAuliffe and Herb Remington. I think it was more of a case of steel guitar from early country influencing Hawaiian music, and vice versa, than it was bandwagon jumping. I have some Western Swing tunes from the 30s about Hawaii in my collection so it goes way back 20 years before the exotica craze hit its peak.