Another great viewer request featuring an obscure R. L. Burnside song. I had to create a new tuning in order to play it... and I love it!
First, here's the original song. You'll notice in my lesson that I tweaked the feel of the song a little bit
Read more…I just posted a few 12-bar blues jam tracks in the key of G. They are pretty simple arrangements just using Band in a Box. For the first pass I highlight the chord changes, but for the other choruses it's up to you to listsn and know where you are in
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Here's a wild guitar concept I haven't seen before. This three-stringer was crafted from a discarded exit sign by Gary Desrosiers. According to Desrosiers, he came across the plastic sign at a job site and inspiration struck.
He
Read more…In all my years of teaching cigar box guitar through Youtube videos, no lesson has been more popular than a quick class I filmed on Seasick Steve's playing style. Recently, I fired up the camera and updated the information, giving closeups to the f
Read more…You've shaped the neck, cut the soundholes and put all those glorious electronics inside. Now it's time to attach the lid to the box!
In the video below, I show the simple way that I attach the lid. As you can see, I prefer to use "drop in lid" ci
Read more…by Shane Speal
Muddy Waters was one of my very first heroes when I was introduced to the blues. He had the swagger and the bravado like no other man who has walked this earth.
He also had a badass guitar technique played with reckless abandon.
Af
Read more…Get the most out of your acoustic/electric cigar box guitars with an inexpensive piezo rod & preamp unit.
In this video, I show a simple mounting technique for neck-through cigar box guitars. The sound is fantastic and really allows a great tone re
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"Come on, brothers and sisters, KICK OUT THE CANS!"
For our final build-off contest of 2017, we're looking for your best canjos, cookie tin banjos and any other playable stringed instrument made from discarded metal containers. It can have one st
Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal delves into the jazzy side of blues with this T-Bone Walker inspired riff. Speal takes Walker's rhythm style and transposes it for a three-string, slide cigar box guitar in the Open G tuning (GDG). You'll need
Read more…She's the favorite darling of cigar box guitar fans worldwide. Now Samantha Fish is back with a sexy new video, "Chills & Fever," the first single from the album of the same name.
The album, Chills and Fever hits March 17, 2017.
Thoughts?
Man oh man, I had a good time! Kinda spoiled living just down the street in Horn Lake, MS - I go to Clarksdale all the time, but the Sunflower blues fest only comes once a year & it was crazy good this time around!!
Got a great video, some of the p
Read more…This time not dirty hardrockin', but a slow and lazy, own produced Swamp song.
Hope you will enjoy it:
Read more…CLARKSDALE, MS--Ida Mae Dobbs, longtime woman of Willie "Skipbone" Jackson, called a press conference Tuesday to respond to charges levied against her by the legendary Delta blues singer. "Despite what Mr. Jackson would have you believe, I am not an
Read more…Just a little something I came up with, tell me what you think.
https://soundcloud.com/max-fireside/the-rambling
Read more…There are some interesting old blues stuff on youtube
Here is a guy that seems to remaster and collect lots of rare blues and rag I enjoy:
Link below:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RagtimeDorianHenry?feature=watch
If you like old blues and would li
Read more…I'm thinking how to make steampunk microphone.
I don't wanna use any plastic covers shells etc.
Tea ball mic looks great and steamy. Problem is tha it sound tinny and
high frequencies. Maybe if I make it right it don't sound ? This looks great but t
New Cross Inn Presents...
A fantastic Sunday night of the UK's best cigar box blues bands and artists!
https://www.facebook.com/events/270646206365020/
Featuring:
HOLLOWBELLY
www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/HOLLOWBELLY17
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BRICKD
