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Peace Love Ukulele

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Released
  
January 4, 2011

Artist
  
Jake Shimabukuro

Genre
  
Acoustic

Peace Love Ukulele (2011)
  
Grand Ukulele (2012)

Release date
  
4 January 2011

Label
  
Hitchhike Records

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Similar
  
Jake Shimabukuro albums, Other albums

Jake shimabukuro 143 kelly s song


Peace Love Ukulele is Jake Shimabukuro's 2011 solo album. It was released in January 2011, and reached #1 in Billboard's Top World Music Albums in 2011 and 2012.

Contents

In Hawaii, Peace Love Ukulele won the 2012 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and also garnered Shimabukuro the Na Hoku Hanohano award for Favorite Entertainer of the Year.

AllMusic praised Shimabukuro's covers of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", while also noting that "his own original compositions" are "actually more ambitious".

Track title information

  • "143 (Kelly's Song)": The subtitle "Kelly's Song" is a reference to Shimabukuro's then-fiancée, Kelly Yamasato. The couple were married in May 2011. "143" was inspired by Jake’s years in high school when cell phones and texting didn't exist. Cool kids generally had a pager, with numeric codes, and "143" was the numeric code for "I love you."
  • "Bring Your Adz": An adz is a small ancient Hawaiian tool for cutting that resembles a small axe. In rock n' roll, players usually refer to their guitars as their axe. Jake explained, "I remember hearing people say, 'Bring your axe to the gig.' I guess 'Bring your adz' is the ukulele version of the expression."
  • "Go For Broke" was inspired by World War II Japanese-American veterans (the 442nd, 100th, 1399th, and MIS). "Go For Broke", which means "to risk everything on one great effort to win big", was the motto of the Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii who were the first to volunteer to fight overseas, proving their loyalty to America and securing a better life for all Asian-Americans currently living in the U.S.

    • Track listing

    All tracks composed by Jake Shimabukuro except where noted

    1. "143 (Kelly's Song)" 2011
    2. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Freddie Mercury)
    3. "Bring Your Adz"
    4. "Boy Meets Girl"
    5. "Go for Broke"
    6. "Trapped" 2010
    7. "Variation on a Dance" 2010
    8. "Pianoforte" 2010
    9. "Five Dollars Unleaded" 2010
    10. "Ukulele Bros." (Bruce Shimabukuro – Jake's brother)
    11. "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen)
    12. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Freddie Mercury) – Live version

    Songs

    1143 (Kelly's Song)4:26
    2Bohemian Rhapsody5:54
    3Bring Your Adz3:50

    References

    Peace Love Ukulele Wikipedia
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