Hey, y'all! Your patience has been rewarded! The Townes Van Zandt CBG tribute album, called Goin' To Townes: A Cigar Box Guitar Tribute, which started as a mere idea here on CBN almost 4 months ago, is finally available for Download!
A double alb
Read more…Met this cat a week ago in the restroom of The Patio on Richmond bar next to The Pit Room barbecue joint, where I was catching up with some old high school buds I haven't seen in 30 years. He claimed he recognized me from the previous night's show (n
Read more…This showed up in my Facebook feed this morning. Check this guy and his bamboo instruments out! He's definitely got the DIY vibe: https://www.facebook.com/nader.alfassam/posts/10210388299563651
Read more…I've been meaning to post this for awhile now, and finally got around to it. So, I built three of these thingies a few months ago. A bandmate and I were having lunch, and talking about various pieces of gear. He asked me if 8'd ever heard of the "So
Read more…How To Map A Song In 6-String Tablature To 3-String Chords WARNING: Long post ahead! Read only if you wanna learn something! A couple of days ago, one of our newer members, Russ Oakes, put out a request for The Allman Brothers Band's "Midnight Ride
Read more…Lookie what GC are selling this 4th of July: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Guitars.gc#pageName=department-page&N=18144&Nao=0&recsPerPage=20&v=g&Ns=pLH&profileCountryCode=SA&profileCurrencyCode=SAR Who'dathunkit?
Read more…So this git, with an accompanying Epiphone EPSC210 2 channel 2x30 W dual 10" speaker solid state amp suddenly fell in my lap. they were sent to me for appraisal in mostly non-working, poorly adjusted condition. So a coupla springs, a fully loaded Fen
Read more…I was just sent this by a friend of mine. Anyone who believes that only slide GDG Blues can be played on a 3-banger should watch this: https://www.facebook.com/disturbreality/videos/842095779167834/
Read more…The following is a primer on the physics of guitar strings, music theory, amplification, and Life, The Universe and Everything: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6EGyFAGpXU&feature=em-uploademail
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…There's lots of uses for one. There's lots of vids and things showing you how and why. This is one of them: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-use-a-multimeter/all
Read more…http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/20/showbiz/music/ray-manzaerk-the-doors-dies/index.html One of the comments on this story offered a great T-shirt line: "You know you're getting old when you hafta hold a seance for all the bands you wanna see." RIP
Read more…I do believe these young gentlemen from El Lay got it goin' on - they definitely know their Zeppelin, Black Oak Arkansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, North Mississippi All Stars, and Black Crowes - heck, even a ref of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in the first vid!
Read more…Been reading lots about Blues history lately. Lots of mentions of songs I was first introduced to by a harp playing friend in college. Started looking up some of my faves on YouTube, and found lots there. Here's three from one of my favorite blues me
Read more…In Saturday's May 17 New York Times T Magazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/t-magazine/mississippi-blues-travelers.html
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In my shameless promotion of Texan singer-songwriters, here's another one some of y'all may have heard of:
http://www.29-95.com/music/story/ray-wylie-hubbard-writes-grifters-bible
Playing at one of the bars I used to do open mics at (Hi, Richard
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