https://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/album/one-horse-town
Here is a new Cd of mostly traditional songs played on a gas can banjo I made. I offer it free to anyone who wants it. I would ask if you do like it and download it please consider sharing the
Read more…https://deathrootssyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/ax-murder-hollow
This is a link to a free cd all made with home made cbgs and cbfiddles and stuff. It is lo fi and creepy
Read more…We have just discovered another set of historic plans as part of Cigar Box Nation's ongoing research to archive homemade folk instruments. How a Boy Can Make a Banjo was first published in the Salt Lake Herald on Aug. 20, 1893.
The article descri
Read more…Amazing Grace continues to be one of our most requested lessons. Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply shows you how to play the entire thing using just one finger. You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
We heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has taken the great singalong rocker, Take It On the Run by REO Speedwagon and arranged it for one-finger playing! You'll need a 3-string cigar box gu
Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has broken down Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic Bad Moon Rising and shows you how to play the entire thing with one finger! You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal deconstructs the 6-string riff from Little Red Rooster and transposes it on three-string, open G (GDG) slide cigar box guitar.
Note: Variations of this guitar riff has been used in countless other classic blues
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply takes one of the most popular songs of the 1970's teaches you how to play the entire thing with one finger! This John Denver classic is very easy to play using Glenn's simplified technique. You'll need a 3-
Read more…It's Autumn Building Season... and what better time than now to cut into a dried gourd to make a musical instrument!
The gourd banjo dates back to Africa and was one of the first instruments brought to America by slaves. The construction has a lot
Read more…https://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/album/the-jerusalem-mule-plays-like-hell here is a lofi project I choos to challenge myself with yesterday. All live into one mic no power just acoustic and a suitcase drum for percussion. All original songs. Hope
Read more…Hi Everybody,
I just joined the Cigar Box Nation. For a bunch of free lessons check my website here https://rickmckeon.com/cbglessons.html Hope you find something useful. Let me know what you think.
Rick
Read more…Hey, y'all, Dan and Ben have just created a Free Albums tab in the CBN toolbar, right between How To Play, and Free Plans. It has links to all the free albums created on and by CBN members over the years, including: FREE ALBUM DOWNLOADS In respons
Read more…Hey Friends,
My band, Trouble with Maggie, has a new Facebook page with some live recordings for free download.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trouble-with-Maggie-Band/168513223168532
We'd like to get some quick Facebook likes to help us in get
Read more…Free download of his latest release:
http://www.jbonamassa.com/dustbowl/
Read more…http://tangiersound.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/folk-guitar1.pdf Some of you might find this guitar book useful. Of course, it is for six string guitar, but it covers open tunings and playing slide guitar. Should be fairly simple to translate to CBG
Read more…this is an interview and in-studio performance with Hasil Adkins....king of psycho-billy or whatever the hell you want to label his tunes... the great thing about this performance is the interviews that are mixed in...HILARIOUS. and a great mix of
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