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Jack West/Walter Strauss: Guitars on Life

Read "Guitars on Life" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
February 9, 2026

Emerging from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s, acoustic guitarist Jack West forged a new style on 6-and 8-string instruments that integrates percussive use of the strings and guitar body with melody and harmony. Spicing his tunes with repeated harmonics and slide flourishes and incorporating influences from jazz, folk, rock and Americana music, West ...

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