Bob West (radio host)

Bob West
West with Furry Lewis
Background information
Birth name	Jay Robert West
Born	(1942-03-27)March 27, 1942 Seattle, Washington, United States
Died	July 31, 2016(2016-07-31) (aged 74) Seattle, Washington, United States
Occupation(s)	ethnomusicologist, record producer, musician, radio host

Bob West (March 27, 1942 – July 31, 2016) was an American ethnomusicologist, radio host, musician, and record producer. He became involved in radio in 1966 at KRAB Radio in Seattle. Lorenzo Milam, who heard him as a guest on another KRAB show, asked him in 1967 to host a weekly jazz and blues show on KRAB. A year later, West made his first field trip to Memphis to record Furry Lewis and Bukka White. In 2001 he founded Arcola Records in Seattle to create and distribute CDs of his field recordings.^[1]