Live Your Music – Margaux Joy and Guest Jim Kimo West 10/02/19

I am happy to have Jim Kimo West as my guest for Live Your Music this week. Join us for a conversation about all of the ways Jim is living his music! 

Jim “Kimo” West is best known as long-time guitarist for the world’s most successful musical satirist, Weird Al Yankovic and his work with Al has resulted in five Grammy’s as well as many gold and platinum records over a period of over thirty years. Their last release, Mandatory Fun debuted at #1 on Billboard Top Ten Album charts and won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. In addition, Al was recently awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

They just wrapped up the highly-successful Strings Attached Tour playing 67 shows to sold-out audiences all over North America and accompanied every night by a full orchestra, backup singers and multimedia.

Kimo is a Grammy nominee for his recent CD, Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island, a 2008 winner of the Hawaii Music Awards and three-time Na HokuHanohano (the Hawaiian ‘Grammy’) nominee.

Jim's numerous CD’s feature many original compositions as well as inventive arrangements of the genre’s classic repertoire. Slackers In Paradise features duets with slack and steel guitar legend, Ken Emerson and his latest CD, Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island is a mix of nahenahe or very relaxing compositions.

Jim Kimo West is regarded as one of the world’s foremost Hawaiian slack key guitar artists and his music has garnered over 50 million streams on Spotify and Pandora.

To connect with Jim Kimo West online, visit his website: www.jimkimowest.com