Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal deconstructs the 6-string riff from Little Red Rooster and transposes it on three-string, open G (GDG) slide cigar box guitar.
Note: Variations of this guitar riff has been used in countless other classic blues
Read more…Wagon Wheel has become one of the most popular cover tunes at open mics around the world. Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply shows you how to play the Old Crow Medicine Show song on just one finger. You'll be rockin' this one in no time.
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Read more…Shane Speal's back with one of the most useful lessons for cigar box guitar sellers looking for the ultimate riff that will draw people to their booth. Speal shows how to use a simple G major scale on a three-string slide CBG and a Roland MicroCube
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply takes one of the most popular songs of the 1970's teaches you how to play the entire thing with one finger! This John Denver classic is very easy to play using Glenn's simplified technique. You'll need a 3-
Read more…Shane Speal uses his cover of Hendrix's "I Don't Live Today" as a catalyst for teaching basic licks in 3-string Open C tuning (CGC). To play this lesson, you'll need the following setup:
Samantha Fish is coming back with a new album, and she's brought her cigar box guitar to the recording sessions!
The Kansas City blues diva has just premiered her first single, "Crow Jane" from her latest album Chills & Fever. The track is an old
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* 30 Greatest Guitar Riffs on Cigar Box Guitar
One of the most exciting solo acts on the cigar box guitar scene is Muscle Shoals one man band, John Nickel. Taking the stage with drum triggers, a full mixing board and other contraptions, Nickel creates a full band sound centered around his 3-strin
Read more…In the past year, I've had dozens of people send me viral videos of musicians playing shovel guitars. It seems to be the current trend: attach three strings to a shovel and film a boogie with an iPhone. The public seems to think this is a new idea
Read more…Are stepladder guitars the next trend that will take the place of shovel guitars? We're not sure, but we're in love with this creative use of an aluminum step ladder, pickups and slides from Musiques de Nulle Part.
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Read more…Shane Speal just announced a crowdfunding campaign for his next cigar box guitar album, Stay Primal. The campaign also launches a second "Best Of" album from his solo recordings.
It's just been revealed that Speal has recorded four instructional vi
Read more…France's cigar box guitar master, Jérôme Graille has just released two new videos. The first has him performing an improvisation of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez on an A. J. Gaither "Arkansas Tenor" cigar box guitar.
The second video features Gr
Read more…Cigar Box Nation member, Thom Allen was recently featured by WHYY-TV, a Philadelphia based PBS station. In this clip, he is interviewed about his cigar box guitar company, Outta the Box Guitars and even shows him picking a little blues, too.
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Read more…French phenom, Jerome Graille continues to push the cigar box guitar into new territories. Check out his smokin' cover of Metallica's "Sad But True" below.
And make sure to see all his other insane covers on his official Youtube playlist.
Report and photos by Bill Jagitsch, aka Bluesboy Jag. Learn more about Jag at: http://www.jagshouse.com/cigarboxguitars.html
The photos in this article showcase the current exhibit of Ed Stilley instruments at Old Statehouse Museum in Little Rock,
Read more…Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal created this weird monstrosity of a lap steel guitar using salvaged materials. He documented the whole process here.
Yesterday, I got the urge to build something new, so I went into my woodshop and challenged m
Read more…Janis Wilson Hughes takes you through the riffs of Money For Nothing on a 4-string cigar box guitar. She even gives amp settings!
Tuning: Open G: GDGB (low to high)
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Brett Gardner is one of the most exciting new forces in the Cigar Box Guitar Movement today..and he's doing it without wading in the old blues or Americana cliche's. No... this kid is taking his three string cigar box guitar into the realm of Django
Read more… Welcome to 2017, the International Year of Homemade Boogie! There's exciting things happening behind the scenes at Cigar Box Nation HQ. We've brought back the daily Featured Instrument right on the home page of the website. We're also developing ne
Americana singing phenom, Emi Sunshine gave this special performance on Facebook Live yesterday and features a custom 4-string cigar box guitar. She shows off the instrument at the beginning of the video as she waits for more viewers to tune in.
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