Sunday Manoa’s Guava Jam signaled a new direction in Hawaiian music. The trio’s definitive album, released on Hula Records in 1969, defined a new style of Hawaiian music, ushering the start of a new era in the islands known as the “Hawaiian Renaissance”—the revitalization of tradition, culture, and language of the Hawaiian people. But in the early seventies, many found Guava Jam difficult to accept.