Greetings.  I found about about the cigar box guitar less than two weeks ago (via Sir Paul), and already I've ordered one and written a piece about it.

I'm a novelist (and a bad slide guitarist), originally from Canada, now in Mexico, via Manhattan.

The piece is on the front page of the Huffington Post, and is getting a bunch of attention.  Not sure why people are reading about guitars, ten minutes before the end of the world, but it says something good about our species.  I link to this site, via the Resofiddle, but -- like an idiot -- I neglected to mention Cigar Box Nation by name.  Sorry about that.   Of course, people will find it in a nanosecond, if they start looking into the CBG with Google, etc.

The article is here:  http://huff.to/XU4aFV

Hope I didn't make any egregious errors.  As I say:  this is all new to me.  But I'll have my Bluesboy Jag Avo Heritage in a few days...

Nice to be here!

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I like how casual you are in referring to yourself as being a novelist  ;-)

Hey, it's my job!

(Whereas slide guitarist very much isn't my job.  *I* wouldn't hire me to play guitar.)

You're welcome!  Hope I didn't make any errors in fact.  (I really am new to this.)

i  think  your "coolness"   just stepped  up   a notch  ;-) 

That's all that matters.

(Although it would be nice to pick up a few more skills as a guitarist. Competence would do.)

Thanks, Kiwi.  (Which forums do you frequent?  I was under the impression that this was CBG Central.  Are there shadowy corners of the Internet where people gather to whisper about ancient musical tech?)

Hi and welcome to The Nation.

You realise you have fallen down the rabbit hole and there is no going back don't you? Like Alice you are in for a mysterious journey filled with amazing characters with back stories that will entrance you as much as their playing & builds :D

indeed   penny   ;-)

 

 

Curiouser and curiouser.

Bet you can't build just one. Welcome to the insanity. Nice article.

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Don't feel bad about your playing-i'm still mastering the intricacies of 'Mary Had Aa Little Lamb' and the opening riff of Smoke on the Water'...

I hope you stick around the Nation for awhile-and once you've had a little fun with your CBG, build a few for even more fun! If a ham-fisted,near-sighted and tone-deaf idiot like me can make playable instruments out of cookie tins,boxes and tennis raccquets, then ANYBODY can!

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