Better Blues Fest Integration...

This weekend here in Rochester, NY there is a Ribs and Blues Fest... Got me thinking about CBN and how to better integrate into fest... It seems to me that either the bands here on the nation are 1-2 man bands, I can't watch that for more then 1 set.... Maybe a better way to sell CBG/CBN would be to sell to the Blues Fest a History of the Blues Night... start out with a the History and a diddly bow a canjo then build a band or add people to bring about a full fledge Band .... The Blues Fest a History of the Blues Night could be a 3 hour set and only use CBG's, Basses and the so forth... I think this would be a much better way to introduce CBG's to a new generation. The current CBG fest are nice and fun but to incorporate into the mainstream fest would be incredible.. This band would have to be on par with the other bands brought into the fest, so yes... a real good band.... And as Shane Says PlayLikeABadA$$MoFo

Any Thoughts...

I spent time a year or so ago trying to introduce the cbg movement to the blues societies around the Ohio area. Most are interested in the instruments themselves but not so much the music that surrounds it. Most blues fests are rooted in well polished Chicago electric blues. The appeal of cigar box guitars to most folks here is the rough, raw sound of the instruments which is also the sound of the simple one and two man bands. Which is the sound the surrounds alot of the cbg fests your talking about. Most cbg music is rooted in the northern mississippi hill country sound such as folks like Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and Richard Johnston.

There are folks who incorporate cbgs into their acts who have that chicago sound including the 2009 international blues challange winner JP Soars and the Red Hots, and Junior Challange Winner Micah Kesselring, who plays a Darren Dukes- Back Porch Mojo resonator box guitar and one of my 3 string electric fretless I hand made for him.

I agree that there could be an appeal to a "full fledged" band who is "on par" with the type of band that plays those kind of fests.

But don't discredit the ones who are out there performing right now. They ( and me included) are performing exaclty what we want for the size of crowd we want. And the folks who show up at these fests want to hear the rough raw homemade sound.

I would be careful in calling it a "better" way to promote. I agree that what you are proposing would have it's appeal, but don't discredit what folks are working very hard to do right now, which is the essence of cigar box guitars- taking what to most people is throw away, and making it something unique. Something that goes against the grain of polished manufactured guitars and the sound that surrounds those instruments

That being said though, if that is what you want from the cbg movement- then help to do the leg work to make it happen. That has always been the beauty of this cbg thing- make it what you want it to be.

I am not replying with this to start conflict- only to remind folks that there is room for all in this and to not discredit folks who are making there own way in the movement.

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Joker July 12, 2010 at 5:55am

Not a problem. Like I said- it sounds like a good way to promote cbg's. Maybe that's your calling in the movement!

Hip Bone Bellaire said:
Maybe I should have used the words an alternative way to introduce CBG's to a new generation. Great response, thanks again..
Hip Bone Bellaire July 11, 2010 at 11:00am

Maybe I should have used the words an alternative way to introduce CBG's to a new generation. Great response, thanks again..
Joker July 11, 2010 at 9:41am

I spent time a year or so ago trying to introduce the cbg movement to the blues societies around the Ohio area. Most are interested in the instruments themselves but not so much the music that surrounds it. Most blues fests are rooted in well polished Chicago electric blues. The appeal of cigar box guitars to most folks here is the rough, raw sound of the instruments which is also the sound of the simple one and two man bands. Which is the sound the surrounds alot of the cbg fests your talking about. Most cbg music is rooted in the northern mississippi hill country sound such as folks like Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and Richard Johnston.

There are folks who incorporate cbgs into their acts who have that chicago sound including the 2009 international blues challange winner JP Soars and the Red Hots, and Junior Challange Winner Micah Kesselring, who plays a Darren Dukes- Back Porch Mojo resonator box guitar and one of my 3 string electric fretless I hand made for him.

I agree that there could be an appeal to a "full fledged" band who is "on par" with the type of band that plays those kind of fests.

But don't discredit the ones who are out there performing right now. They ( and me included) are performing exaclty what we want for the size of crowd we want. And the folks who show up at these fests want to hear the rough raw homemade sound.

I would be careful in calling it a "better" way to promote. I agree that what you are proposing would have it's appeal, but don't discredit what folks are working very hard to do right now, which is the essence of cigar box guitars- taking what to most people is throw away, and making it something unique. Something that goes against the grain of polished manufactured guitars and the sound that surrounds those instruments

That being said though, if that is what you want from the cbg movement- then help to do the leg work to make it happen. That has always been the beauty of this cbg thing- make it what you want it to be.

I am not replying with this to start conflict- only to remind folks that there is room for all in this and to not discredit folks who are making there own way in the movement.

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