Those who have followed Cumquat’s Hawaiian Project up to this point will be well aware that from the mid 1930s through to the mid 1940s, Dick McIntire, Bob Nichols, Sol Ho’opi’i, Andy Iona and one or two others – for the steel guitar - set the expressive standards that later players such as David Keli’i, Jules Ah See, Bernie Kaai, Jerry Byrd, Bernie Kaai and others that followed in their footsteps would have to measure up to.

This collection contains the final fourteen of Dick McIntire’s previously unreleased radio transcriptions, tracks that allow us to hear him at his most mature... plus four tracks of him as guest artist with Sol K. Bright’s Hollywaiians. Here’s an excerpt from the title track.