While wandering around all that is music on the web, we've learned many a great rocker, pop singer, or blues player (Don Henley, Elvis Costello, Taylor Swift, and Johnny Winter, among others) have proudly admitted to uke use.
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder's recent release, Ukulele Songs, seems sure to move the ukulele up a notch on the list of small but mighty instruments worth listening to...
More Ukulele Tunes
Off to Hawaii you'll go by listening to tunes by the late Israel 'Iz' Kamakawiwo`ole. Also try CDs by obviously masterful uke player Jake Shimabukuro, whose George Harrison tribute is still a YouTube hit:
Before Contemporary Classic, Came a Different Sort of 'Classic'
Visit and search the National Jukebox, launched by the Library of Congress last May, for a number of early recordings featuring, or about, the ukulele...
Local Ukulele Enthusiast Alert
If you'd like to learn to play the uke, or dust off your rusty guitar skills, the Glastonbury Ukulele Club is ever ready to welcome new members and also offers online practice chord resources.
Surf's Up
Ukulele Crazy by Ben Sisario, NYT, 15 April 2011
Eddie Vedder on Giving the Ukulele a Turn in the Spotlight by Ann Powers, NPR, 25 May 2011
Jake on NPR Music or more surprising still, who knew "Bohemian Rhapsody" could go uke?
