Jack Lee - Bigger Than Life - VINYL LP

Billy Strings Live Vol. 1 (180gm 2LP) Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2024 live from the acclaimed Bluegrass musician. Billy Strings partners with Reprise Records for his first-ever live album.

Guitars On Life solves a nagging mystery about the fate of a musician who stood out as a singularly spectacular bloom even in the verdant creative fields of the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn of the century. After more than two decades of recording silence and about a dozen years away from the bandstand, Jack West is back, still immediately recognizable as a guitarist and composer but miles from the last stop on his ongoing musical journey. There's poetic symmetry in discovering that his detour from life as a performing musician involved fruitful work devising innovative solar technologies, as he had similarly distinguished himself as an inveterately inventive musician. When we last heard from West he'd carved out a vibrant niche as a guitarist with a percussive attack and lustrous group sound. Wielding a custom-built eight-string acoustic guitar with uncommon rhythmic dexterity, he released six albums featuring his original tunes, mostly recording with his band Curvature (though he also played mesmerizing solo recitals). West's knack for crafting glistening, minutely detailed soundscapes full of surprising twists and oddly inviting textures prompted NPR to describe his work as Incha whole new sub-genre of jazz.Inch Drawn back to performing in recent years, West saw guitarist Walter Strauss at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage in 2022 and suspected he'd found a kindred spirit. Intrigued by Strauss's unusual approach to guitar, West Inchwondered what a musical conversation might sound like between two guitarists who had developed such uniquely different ways of playing the instrument.Inch An invitation to play together led to them writing the tune 'More Guitar,' the bravura opening track that launches Guitars On Life. Several months later they spent a week in Florida together writing intensively, resulting in most of the material for this consistently thrilling project.

This album is all about the vertigo of growing up,Inch says Jack, who makes his Dualtone Records debut with the sophomore JVC. InchIt's about re-defining and re-understanding yourself.Inch InchRattlesnake,Inch with it's introspective lyrics and atmospheric acoustics, earned him a spot on Spotify's 2024 Best New Artist list with tastemaker playlist Inchjuniper.Inch JVC was born during a period of anxiety, self-examination, and newfound freedom. It's a sharply-written record that measures the long, winding road from past to present.