Slack key guitar is the sound of Hawaiian fellowship, protest, and love for native land. Most scholars trace the origin of the indigenous fingerstyle technique—named for the fact that the strings are ...

Peterson plays the slack-key guitar, which is a type of guitar playing that originated in Hawaii. In the 1830s, visiting Spanish and Mexican cowboys brought guitars to the Hawaiian cattle ranches, ...

When he’s not playing lead guitar touring and recording with “Weird Al” Yankovic, Grammy winning musician Jim “Kimo” West pursues his love for Hawaiian slack key guitar. Releasing several acclaimed ...

The best musicians are usually the most versatile, such as Jim “Kimo” West. Van Nuys resident West is the guitarist for “Weird Al” Yankovic, whose latest effort, the chart-topping “Mandatory Fun” (RCA ...