Show Notes: We asked John Burnett, staff writer for the Hawaii Tribune Herald, for his Top 5 Tunes and he came up with picks from Ledward Kaapana,

Mark Yamanka, Nā Palapala, Darlene Ahuna, and Long Tall Deb and Colin John. Listen to the podcast to see which songs he chose.

Burnett has been in Hawaii media for almost four-and-a-half decades, three of those in radio. He's also written extensively about Hawaii music and entertainment -- first in the late 1990s for the former Hawaii Island Journal, then for the Hawaii Tribune-Herald starting in 2006, where he's now the police and courts reporter and handling general assignments during the pandemic. 

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