Originally broadcast live, August 8, 2016 at http://facebook.com/cigarboxguitar .
Shane Speal delves into the quiet, meditative music that is hiding in a cigar box guitar. Melodic instrumentals include concepts from:
CBGitty.com presents the Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival, returning to York PA on Saturday, August 27. Two stages of music, vendors and more. This free event coincides with the city-wide YorkFest fine arts and crafts festival on the same da
Read more…Boston's own Ten Foot Polecats are a three piece force of nature with Jim Chilson on the 5-string rectangle guitar. They sound like RL Burnside and Howlin Wolf were put into a blender.
Shane Speal shows some cool blues riffs using a 3-string slide cigar box guitar and a stubby slide. Featuring licks inspired by Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.
During a Cigar Box Nation TV broadcast on cigar box banjos, Wade Costenbader joined in the comments and offered some great suggestions for dealing with the pesky 5th string peg on cigar box banjos.
One of his tips that makes banjo neck making easier:
Read more…Youtube star, "dfiddleb" is known for all kinds of self-made demo videos featuring banjos, fiddles and other traditional instruments. However, this video of him performing "Georga Row" on a Tennessee music box dulcimer with a violin bow really caugh
Read more…We heard this video features Cigar Box Nation member, Charles Atchison somewhere. We think he may be the lead singer and the other two guys are his identical triplets! (Note the collection of historic and contemporary cigar box guitars behind him/t
Read more…The guys at Bohemian Guitars just posted this live concert video of Jeff Beck playing one of their oil can guitars. Is there anything Beck can't play?
BTW, Beck's very first instrument was a cigar box guitar he built as a child.
Here's a close-up
Read more…This has got to be the most alien-looking uke you'll ever see... BUT IT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE! Simply put, the Styrofoam Cooler Ukulele is nothing but a neck without a body and a huge cooler screwed to the butt end.
Watch the video to hear it for you
Read more…Man, this was LOUD in the woodshed! Featuring diddley bows, washboards, the Psycho Knob guitar and a sneak peek at the CBGitty Tin Can Mic Kit. http://ShaneSpeal.com for music, shirts, guitars, lessons and more.
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It's a cajon stool that hides a drum... a perfect stage device for any one man band. This crazy invention was made by Jeff Swenson of Verndale, Minnesota.
Swenson says, "here's how it looked during construction. The dowel pegs were cut from rods
Read more…This photo was taken today at Immersion Outfitters ministry in Monrovia, Liberia...right before I Skyped with Wesseh and his helper, George Toe.
I just finished Skyping with Wesseh Freeman, the blind oil can guitarist in Liberia. His helper, Pas
Read more…Jim Morris took the "Gus Cannon Banjo Challenge" and knocked it outta the park!
A week ago, I posted an excerpt from Samuel Charter's book, Country Blues where he described the very first banjo played by jug band icon, Gus Cannon:
He loved music an
Read more…I want to start adding old Tin Pan Alley songs to my repertoire, but was having trouble playing them on my 4-string. The best solution was to create an F7 tuning that would enable me to hit those fun, jazzy chords.
The guitar is strung with ADGB s
Read more…Cigar Box Nation member, Leo Cayuela just posted this invention in several separate photo pages. We love the idea so much, we've put all the photos together in one feature article.
The Lap Steel Slide Adapter - Final product!
It started like thi
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Gus Cannon was one of the very first innovators in jug band music. He lead his Cannon's Jug Stompers in the 1920's and 30's, playing wild, driving blues with banjos, j
Mance Lipscomb was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster. Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was discovered in 1960 during the country blues revival. He released many albums of blues, ragtime, Tin Pan A
I've been tweaking my live cigar box guitar sound for many years. Today, I filmed a live video Q&A with the folks over at Cigar Box Nation TV and went through each pedal, one at a time.
I've also listed every pedal with a labeled picture below the
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"Cigar Box Guitar Whammy Bars, Tin Can Instruments and more..."
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