Robert Tainaka (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm stereo vinyl LP, Old Homestead OHS 90056, near-mint vinyl in a very-good cardboard jacket which is showing some rub. Color printing of the cover photo also appears to be slightly out of register, as issued. Signed by Robert Tainaka "To Blade" in black marker to bottom of jacket rear panel. Tainaka had been entertaining the troops at U.S. military bases throughout the Western Pacific with traditional bluegrass music since the late 1940s. Here his foursome (Kay Kawaguchi, guitar & vocals; Reiko Shirai, fiddle; N. Kohrikawa, autoharp & banjo) offer "Wreck of the Old No. 9," "Carry Me Back to the Mountains," "Rosewood Casket," "Engineers Dream," "Watermelon On the Vine," seven more. Reduced from $42. …