“Old-style instruments evoke the recordings ... For many musicians, a cigar box guitar embodies purity of musical expression. “Musicians like myself, we want that grit,” said Shane Speal ...

They’ve created a 10 part YouTube series about the construction of their new cigar box guitar. Instead of a cigar box though, they’ve substituted a 1920’s tin cigarette box. The Omar ...

“Old-style instruments evoke the recordings ... For many musicians, a cigar box guitar embodies purity of musical expression. “Musicians like myself, we want that grit,” said Shane Speal ...

Cigar box guitar — a four-stringed instrument fashioned from an old cigar box or similar item that is often played with a slide — has a raw, aggressive sound. Fish, who grew up in Kansas ...

Cigar box guitars, or CBGs, are not necessarily made ... Music from Tom Dube’s electric CBG filled the old fire station on Second Street. He performed on a CBG made with a wooden box topped ...

Cigar box guitars quickly spread from the Deep South ... is full of found objects and odds and ends — old skeleton keys, Zippo lighters, bottle caps, tobacco tins, empty shotgun shells, metal ...

It’s an old instrument made out of necessity and ... has been a fan of the cigar box guitar for years, incorporating it into her albums and in her live sets. A performer at past editions of ...

FORT PIERCE — The 1st Florida Cigar Box Guitar Festival ... Simply put, Cigar Box instruments are literally made with old cigar boxes. The first date to 1840-1860, when cigar manufacturers ...

He makes cigar box guitars and she plays them ... to be a tin can with a stick protruding from it. She was making old time music that was drawing curious customers in to look at their instruments ...

Making a Three String Explorer - Cigar Box STYLE Guitar Build Colorado senate's override ... according to family 52-year-old quit his job, bought a failing snack company for $250,000—he just ...

Owners of The Cigar Box Guitar Store in Huntsville gave us a crash course in playing a cigar box guitar!

Celebrating 21 years, the World's Longest-Running Cigar Box Guitar Festival is returning to Huntsville from May 30 to June 1.