Cigar Box 3 string vintage guitar Music tube amp pignose 7-100 amplifier Blues
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Cigar Box 3 string vintage guitar Music tube amp pignose 7-100 amplifier Blues
Model: Homemade Cigar Box Blues CD
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Cigar Box 3 string vintage guitar Music tube amp pignose 7-100 amplifier Blues
Watch this video to hear what's on the Album
Recorded with only 3 string cigar box guitars, this is a musical journey into Americas past, imagine walking through an old ghost town in the 1880's, the suspense, the mystery, the whispers that you can barley hear, there is many fantastic songs played in the Ry Cooder style that will take your breath away.
NO regular guitars, NO singing, just homemade 3 string cigar box guitars. These are ALL NEW NEVER BEFORE HEARD SONGS.
If you would like to hear and see how some of these recording were made watch this short video,
Whelp, enough chatter from me, the album is for sale anytime, give it a try, you will enjoy it! If it's not your thing, thanks for your time in reading this and you can enjoy the short trailer of the album above. Thanks again, John
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I would also like to share a massage about my craft and the wrapping and packaging I use. When working both in my shop and in my home, I try to recycle everything I can. It's NOT a political statement, nor a new "hip" trend I follow. I just personally hate throwing away large amounts of plastic and cardboard garbage. The guitars I build are made from old cigar boxes and salvaged or reclaimed wood. It's not just what I do, but who I am as a person. So when wrapping or mailing item. I would be embarrassed to send you useless plastic or wasteful wrapping material that is just raw garbage. It will have no use and will only end up in a landfill.
This disc has NO Plastic cellophane, No Plastic shrink wrap and No Plastic covers.
From Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters to Elmore James, they were all influenced in some way by these early homemade instruments following along in their career as slide guitar players. That's where the blues and slide guitar truly started at. On those plantations and cotton fields, homemade guitars and 'field hollerin' went hand in hand. Blues players didn't play Cibsons or Martins, they couldn't afford them!
During the 1930's, B.B. King growing up a poor cotton sharecropper's son dreamed of buying his first guitar from the Sears catalog. His father wanted to buy him a guitar, but after going to the local 5 and Dime his father knew he didn't even have enough money for food, much less $2 for a used Stella guitar. Like so many of that era, his only option was to "hit" the shed and see what kind of parts he could come up with to build his son a guitar..... it's well documented he made his son "Blues Boy King" his first guitar from a simple cigar box.
From Blind Willie Johnson to Ligthnin' Hopkin's, the list is long. Many of the biggest names in Blues and Rock played homemade guitars. It's been quoted that a schoolmate of the Legendary Blues guitarist Charlie Christian, said:
This form of guitar playing follows in the footsteps of those early Blues and Rock pioneers. Today's modern and Chinese made guitars can't even come close to the true primitive Southern Delta sound these handmade guitars make. Cigar Box Guitars can be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for a more authentic sound. Blues guitarist, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars in the search of playing "Delta Blues" in its purest form. Today you can still find guitar players who are looking for that raw and authentic sound and they chose to play cigar box guitars.
Here is a wonderful song played by Billy Gibbon's from ZZ-top, You will enjoy this song, have a listen,
This sound recording of Ry Cooders' song "Billy The Kid" is performed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top and is an excerpt
from a Mark Maron interview. I have presented it here for educational and commentary purposes only in relation to
the brief discussion about of the history of the cigar box guitar as a long forgotten instrument in American history.
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This story about what would make a poor person use a cigar box for a guitar in the first place began in the mid 1800's. The Cigar boxes that we are familiar with today didn't exist prior to the 1840's. Prior to then, cigars were shipped in larger crates containing 100 or more per case. But after 1842, due to exploration of the "West," cigar manufacturers started using smaller, more portable boxes with only 20-50 cigars per box. In the Old West and through out the 1800's cigars were extremely popular. Card games, Saloons and of corse those great Mississippi Paddleboats helped spread tobacco throughout early America. Because of the widespread popularity of smoking in those days, many empty boxes would be just laying around. Unlike times are today, the 1800's were a simpler time for Americans, when necessity was truly the mother of invention. Being that most American music was based off of stringed instruments, using a cigar box to create a guitar, fiddle, or a banjo was an obvious choice for a few crafty souls. The earliest proof of a instrument made from a cigar box that has been found is an etching of a Civil War solider at the "Siege of Charleston." Even during the Great War there was a passion for music in America and it was overflowing.
Those humble beginnings are what eventually gave the Cigar box Guitar a home in music history. Now even the Smithsonian Museum In Washington D.C. has an early homemade Cigar Box Guitar on display [c.1861] to show Americans true pride and the roots of all our guitar-playin' Soul--- Now that's the Cigar Box Blues!
Cigar Box 3 string vintage guitar Music tube amp pignose 7-100 amplifier Blues
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