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Jim "Kimo" West: Guitar Stories: Slack Key & Beyond
by Mark Sullivan
Guitar Stories presents a lovely, diverse collection of music centered around Kimo West's composing and excellent guitar playing. West is a proponent of the Hawaiian slack key guitar style, a fingerstyle playing technique using various open tunings. He credits the name of the tuning used on each track, as well as including a list spelling out ...
Interview: Slack-Key Guitarist Jim "Kimo" West On New Christmas CD
Q: You have a new Christmas album. You released Kimo's Hawaiian Slack-Key Christmas" in 2008. How would you say this CD differs? A: Ki Ho'alu Christmastime" is my second holiday CD. I recorded it back in January 2013 while the spirit of the season was still intact. Just before Christmas I had been playing around with ...