Next month, Samantha Fish and the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival present four days of music at two Crescent City Clubs (the fest runs Jan. 15 -18 at The Howlin’ Wolf and Chickie Wah Wah). For ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...
It was an offer they couldn't refuse. Savannah's best blues guitarists were offered a free cigar box guitar in exchange for donating their talents to a free concert that will be presented Aug. 6 at ...
Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...
LIVERMORE — Ed Roudebush heard something different in a song that didn’t quite sound like a guitar, but wasn’t a banjo either. After some research, he found the cigar box guitar, and now months later ...
HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...
Bluesboy Jag plays guitars, and while he's a nonsmoker, he does have a thing for cigar boxes, which have long proved useful for more than just containers. "I had always been aware of Bo Diddley's ...
Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...
SPRINGFIELD — If you want your kid to be the next Jimi Hendrix, you wouldn’t dare think of giving him several tabs of acid, 20 milligrams of amphetamines and a horde of groupies with loose morals. So ...
It begins as just a cigar box and a five-quarter stick of maple. With 12 hours work, four strings and skilled fingers, it's music. As a luthier, Roger Wendover has spent more than a quarter century ...
It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...
Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...
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