Bill invited me over to his house in Cleveland, MS one cold day in what I think was 1999. I remember driving over there in the snow. Not a lot of that in the south. I met Jessica and we all talked for awhile before Bill took me into the back room to sit a spell. It was filled with wonderful old books, vinyl records and instruments where we talked about music for hours before we got an itch to jam. Bill turned on the recorder before we kicked off into this blues jam and he gave me a cassette tape of it when we were done. I wrote "A Marine Band" on it I guess to remind me I was playing a Marine Band harmonica in the Key of A. I love that memory. It was the first music I ever played with Bill and I hope I never hear the last. Cheers, old friend. 

Jamming with Bill Abel 1999 (A Marine Band)

As we covered the ASNOC Olympic Day fundraiser to send Team American Samoa to the Pacific Games in PNG, we got a lot of messages of support for the athletes. Here they are...

ASNOC Olympic Day Fundraiser Montage

A beautiful song led by a beautiful friend Lawrence Lua with our little brother Don Jennings on bass. Blue Ocean Crew's take on K@wailehua is a slower and more meditative one. When the guys and I first began playing together regularly, this song pulled us in... into the music and into one another. Put another way, lifting our voices for the harmonies created a special feeling that sparked us to become the Blue Ocean Crew.   

K@wailehua

Live from the Koko Bean Cafe Feb. 5th, 2015. I love playing and singing with these guys. 

Blue Ocean Crew - Sweet Darling

Live from the Koko Bean on 2/5/15. This has been our warm-up song for several year. A nice Hawaiian song about the four winds of Moloka'i. (read here: http://www.huapala.org/Na_Makani_Eha.html)

Na Makani Eha (128kbps)

I Kona

Blue Ocean Crew - Live at the Koko Bean 2/5/15

Lawrence's Slack Key

Akaka Falls

Thoughts from the FMHS students today as they worked to raise money for their trip to Guam in May.

Joey Cummings