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A1	Waimanalo Country Boy Written-By – Bla Pahinui	3:35
A2	He‘eia Written-By – Traditional	2:31
A3	E Nihi Ka Hele Written-By – Traditional	3:01
A4	Kaho‘olawe Written-By – Bla Pahinui	3:12
A5	Nā Moku ‘Ehā Written-By – Johnny Kealoha*	3:55
A6	Gabby's Song Written-By – Bla Pahinui	4:10
B1	Kou Aloha Mau A Mau Written-By – Dennis Kamakahi	4:15
B2	Hi‘ilawe Written-By – Traditional	3:07
B3	Na Ka Pueo Written-By – Traditional	2:10
B4	Leilani Honey Written-By – Bla Pahinui	2:39
B5	Sleep Kaikamahine	4:36
B6	All I Have To Do Is Dream Written-By – Bryant*	2:50

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – The Mountain Apple Company

Credits

• Artwork [Finish] – Bill Maliglig
• Backing Vocals – Melinda Caroll (tracks: B4)
• Bass – Eddie Kam
• Coordinator – Leah Bernstein
• Design – Jon de Mello
• Engineer [Second] – Dean Hoofnagle
• Guitar – Bla Pahinui
• Mastered By – John Golden
• Producer – Jon de Mello
• Translated By – Ma Pahinui (tracks: B6), Patty Ann Billips (tracks: B6)
• Ukulele – Bla Pahinui
• Vocals – Bla Pahinui

Philip Kunia Pahinui (Hawaiian pronunciation: ; April 22, 1921 – October 13, 1980) was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music. Born into a struggling family, Gabby was born Charles Kapono Kahahawai Jr. and later hānaied with his brother and one of his sisters to Philip and Emily Pahinui and raised in the impoverished district of Kaka'ako in Honolulu in the 1920s ("all tin roofs and kinda falling apart")

Bla on Bla. James Daniel Pahinui Bla. 1. Hale‘iwa Honky Tonk. 2. Sanoe (Queen Lili‘uokalani). 3. Silhouettes (Bob Crewe). 4. Kaua‘i Beauty (Henry Wai‘au). 5. Two of Us (Paul McCartney & John Lennon). 6. Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Anonymous). Emily Pahinui played organ at church. When I sing it, I feel her next to me. Dedicated to Jeff Johnson, Jack Johnson’s dad and Hale‘iwa’s man of the waves and protector of the ‘āina. THE CHRISTMAS SONG is my dad’s kind of song. Shoji jumped in with jazz guitar. Shoji jumps back in and riffs again.

It's wonderful to hear Bla Pahinui (or James Bla Pahinui, to offer his full name) return to what's really his signature piece, "Waimanalo Blues," this time around achingly poignant, the voice deeper and richer than ever before, like burled wood.

James "Bla" Pahinui - Waimanalo Blues 03:45. James "Bla" Pahinui - May God Bless You (You'll Never Meet Another Kanaka Like Me) 02:51. James "Bla" Pahinui - Wai O Ke Aniani/ E Nihi Ka Hele Wai O Ke Aniani E Nihi Ka Hele 05:43. James "Bla" Pahinui - If I Give My Heart To You 02:38. James "Bla" Pahinui - Pua Tuberose 05:19. James "Bla" Pahinui - Gabby's Song 04:24. James "Bla" Pahinui - Waimanalo Country Boy 03:36. James "Bla" Pahinui - Memories of Gabby 02:07

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