Blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you’ll get Harry Manx’s unique “mysticssippi” flavour.

For years, Manx has included a cigar box guitar in his arsenal of Hindustani slide guitars, delivering a hypnotic take on a Bruce Springsteen classic on it:

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  • Anyone have any information on how this instrument is strung/constructed/ tuned/wired/amped? And how he gets that "sitar-like" sound? Thanks....

    I saw Harry Manx open for Richie Havens a few years back. His playing is mesmerizing. Awesome musician.

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