The Hawaiian Slack Key tradition meets the Nashville School of Pick 'n' Grin with Coldwater Slack Key - Tim Fuller's first solo guitar release.

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"The sounds of the slack key tradition convey the slower, more intimate rhythms of nature as opposed to the urban rhythms of rock 'n' roll or jazz," Fuller explains.

 

"My favorite places to compose and create new guitar pieces are well away from roads, cars, and cities.  Last Fall I took a two-week river trip in the American Southwest. Playing music by a flowing river beneath moonlit canyon walls is, to be sure, a nasty job," Tim deadpans. "But someone has to do it!"

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Tim Fuller lives in Santa Cruz, California, a town with some of the best, and coldest, surfing on the West Coast. "Hawaiian slack key is the original surf music.  I try to get some of that feeling of being in the water and riding the waves in my music.  But this isn't Hawaii or even Southern Cal.  You wear a wetsuit year-round here.  Hence the title Coldwater Slack Key.

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Tim began listening to and playing Hawaiian slack key in January of 2001.  "I soon realized that I had finally found my voice as a guitarist," Fuller recalls. "The sound you get from the instrument is so much bigger, so much richer with slack key tunings."

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Tim favors the nylon string guitar and acknowledges the influence of Nashville legends Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed.  "It's been a gas applying all that I've learned from those guys to the Hawaiian slack key tradition."

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Tim is looking forward to sharing this new personal and musical evolution with interested listeners everywhere.

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Coldwater Slack Key.  From Santa Cruz. Bettah bring da wetsuit, bruddah....

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