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Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 1

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 1

This is the revolutionary cd created by the Cigar Box Guitar Forum. More than 16 performers from 3 different continents...all playing cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. It's not what you'd expect. Genre's include blues, rock, folk, goth, nu-metal, techno, trip hop, rockabilly and more. Almost 80 minutes of cigar box music! "EMPTY CIGAR BOXES, STICKS, HACK-WIRED ELECTRONICS...WHATEVER MAKES A SOUND. EACH OF THESE PERFORMERS ABANDONED THEIR "NORMAL" INSTRUMENTS FOR SOMETHING DEEPER...TRUER...MORE PRIMAL!"

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  Track Title  
01 BEANS HAMBONE/EL MORROW - Beans (The first recording of a CBG 1931) [2:49]    Album only
02 ROLLIE TUSSING & EZRA HOLBROOK - When I Lay My Burden Down [2:45]    Album only
03 CIGAR BOX SLIM - They Call Me Guitar Box Slim [3:19]    Album only
04 SALTY DOG - Jack O' Diamonds [2:30]    Album only
05 GERRY THOMPSON - You Don't Love Me Anymore [3:51]    Album only
06 BAZOOKAHOSEN - Black Sea Outline [4:41]    Album only
07 CHRIS BALLEW - Bright With Stars [2:46]    Album only
08 YETI ON A BUDGET - My Cigarronne [3:48]    Album only
09 THE DITCH DIGGERS - Possum Headed Girl [3:16]    Album only
X-Ray Spex (bonus track) [3:55]    Album only
11 DOCTOR OAKROOT - Tree 'Fo' A Hurricane [2:45]    Album only
13 SHANE SPEAL - High Noon [1:43]    Album only
14 ELLIOTT AND THE UNTOUCHABLES - Voodoo Stew [5:33]    Album only
16 CITRUS - Tone to Salve My Soul [2:27]    Album only
17 STACY PUCKETT - Don't Want to See You Go [2:54]    Album only
18 MACK STEVENS & DAVID BETZ - Cigar Holler [2:13]    Album only
19 DYNAMO RAY - My Little Toy Ray Gun [3:56]    Album only
20 ROLLIE TUSSING & EZRA HOLBROOK - Berta Berta [2:21]    Album only
21 GERRY THOMPSON's BLUE NEIGHBORHOOD - Sophia's Tune [3:27]    Album only
22 TIM BOWER - You're Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond [1:34]    Album only
23 JUG FUSION - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed [3:25]    Album only
24 STACY PUCKETT - Swing Low Sweet Chariot [2:06]    Album only

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 2

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 2

This is the long-awaited follow up to Vol. 1. Twelve songs full of grit and attitude and deeper than anything you've heard in a long long time. Fans of punk/blues and Fat Possum stuff will go apeshit over this collection. From acoustic folk to gritty, electrified mayhem. Standouts are National Slide Guitar champion Rollie Tussing's cranking "Denomination Blues," Leaving Miss Blue's funk of "Methadone Boogie," Les July's R&B masterpiece "Oh Mari" and the goth-blues of the Low Country Messiahs' "Goofer Dust."

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  Track Title  
01 DAVID WILLIAMS - A Different Guitar [2:50]    Album only
02 ROLLIE TUSSING - Denomination Blues [2:17]    Album only
03 THE FEELINGS HIJACKERS feat. Shane Speal - Deep Deep Root [3:01]    Album only
04 LEAVING MISS BLUE - Methadone Boogie [4:54]    Album only
05 LES JULY - Oh Mari [3:16]    Album only
06 ELLIOTT AND THE UNTOUCHABLES - Toss N Turn [4:02]    Album only
07 MICROWAVE DAVE - Trail of Tears (live) [7:30]    Album only
08 LOW COUNTRY MESSIAHS - Goofer Dust [5:08]    Album only
09 TIMOTHY RENNER - Angeline [2:59]    Album only
10 STACY PUCKETT - Take Me as I Am [3:03]    Album only
11 SS RADIO - Three Sheets to the Wind [4:31]    Album only
12 JUG FUSION - Jesus is Comin' Soon [2:36]    Album only

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 3

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 3

Unlike the rowdiness of Vol. 2, this collection features a more acoustic and folk blues with some of the pillars of the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution. Six of the acts featured on the Songs Inside the Box documentary are here: Gerry Thompson, Tomi-O, Buckeye, Bill Jehle, Doctor Oakroot and the almighty Johnny Lowebow (with his studio version of the iconic "I Got the Goat In Me"). If you want to experience the power of a cigar box guitar as songwriting tool, this is the cd you need for inspiration.

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  Track Title  
1. MICHAEL "BLIND DOG" GATEWOOD - I Hear the Blues Callin' [1:18]    Album only
2. SALTY DOG - Death Letter Blues [3:58]    Album only
3.GERRY THOMPSON AND ARTHUR HERRMANN - Worn Out Jenny [5:23]    Album only
4. BOZ - Body in the Bed [2:36]    Album only
5. THE SIDESHOW TRAMPS - Gypsy Dance [2:12]    Album only
6. RUSS KEMNER (of Sunny Daze Cigar Box Ukes) - Indian Summer [0:40]    Album only
7. TOMI-O (The New Age Hillbilly) - Bucktooth Holler [3:10]    Album only
9. THE JERUSALEM MULES - Aunt Rhody [2:36]    Album only
10. BUCKEYE - Fat Girl Stomp [2:50]    Album only
11. BAZOOKAHOSEN - Ejes Bakken Af Norgen [4:16]    Album only
12. BILL JEHLE - The Urge [2:48]    Album only
13. DOCTOR OAKROOT - Rushing to the Funeral [2:13]    Album only
14. RUSS KEMNER - Border Cross [1:01]    Album only
15. LLOYD "MADMAN" MADANSKY - Keep On Truckin' [2:41]    Album only
Shane Speal - Star Spangled Banner [2:25]    Album only

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 4

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 4

Vol. 4 features the great Jesco White "Dancing Outlaw" performing a deep blues song on a CBG along with Cuzn Wildweed and Geo Ballentine. (The recording was made on they day they buried Hasil Adkins...very deep indeed.) The cd also features Joe Buck (the mohawk'd upright bassist for Hank Williams III) doing some hellbilly cigar box punk. This is probably the most diverse Masters album since Vol. 1. There's folk music, blues, ghetto tribal, jug band and punk blues. Not to be missed.

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  Track Title  
1. Wrong Turn – Just a Little Bit [3:47]    Album only
2. Charmin Diggs – Stubb Likes Whale Meat [2:33]    Album only
3. Jesco White (with Cuzn Wildweed and Geo Ballentine) – Gotta Get Loose [3:08]    Album only
4. The Wintersleepers – Once Sang So Broadly [2:06]    Album only
5. Thomas Thoune – Cigar Blues [2:28]    Album only
6. Quadraphonic Octopus – Line ‘Em Up [7:45]    Album only
7. Rusty Wooden Pistol – Little Mister [1:40]    Album only
8. The Muckland Crooners – Wally World World [2:57]    Album only
9. Sunny Daze – Summers Train [0:47]    Album only
10. Kevin Kraft – Kinder Eyes [3:04]    Album only
11. Geo Ballentine – Star Spangled Banner [1:36]    Album only
12. Mark Stowe – Lost in the Madness [3:19]    Album only
13. The Joker – Solomon J [2:40]    Album only
14. Ken the Noisemaker – Slippin’ and Stumblin’ [1:37]    Album only
15. Analog Fortune – My 55 Ratt Rod [2:05]    Album only
16. Joe Buck Yourself – Dig a Hole [3:23]    Album only

FREE DOWNLOAD  BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON TRIBUTE

"If I Had My Way, A Cigar Box Guitar Tribute to Blind Willie Johnson"

From the members of www.CigarBoxNation.com Compiled and produced by Shane Speal. (c) 2011 Cover Art (c) 2011 by Thomas Boatwright All songs are under Public Domain. Each performer owns the rights to their individual recordings.

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  Track Title  
SHANE SPEAL Jesus Is Coming Soon [6:35]    Album only
KENI LEE BURGESS You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond [3:00]    Album only
GLENN KAISER Praise God Im Satisfied [3:05]    Album only
NIGEL MCTRUSTRY Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning [3:25]    Album only
ONE STRING WILLIE Church Im Fully Saved Today [2:55]    Album only
DAVID SUTTON I Just Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes [4:02]    Album only
THE WENDELLS Can't Nobody Hide from God [2:18]    Album only
CRIS PORTILLO JR Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed [4:59]    Album only
SEVEN HILLS STOMP John the Revelator [3:42]    Album only
ED STRAUSS Sweeter as the Years Go By [3:50]    Album only
GARY MARTIN Trouble Soon Be Over [3:39]    Album only
PAPA SIMONE Dark was the Night Cold was the Ground [3:31]    Album only
HOBO STUBBS Nobodys Fault But Mine [3:04]    Album only
LOST TONE The Soul of a Man [3:28]    Album only
LOU KILPATRICK Let is shine [2:50]    Album only
MARK STOWE I'm Gonna Run To The City of Refuge [2:17]    Album only
MARSHALL STAPLETON Bye and Bye [3:35]    Album only
MATT TOWE Leave It There [2:36]    Album only
AL HAMILTON (feat. SHANE SPEAL) You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond [4:42]    Album only
NIGHT OWL I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole [4:13]    Album only
NORM FASEY - THE ONE MAN BLUES COLLECTIVE Nobodys Fault But Mine [3:09]    Album only
PAPA SIMONE The Rain Don't Fall on Me [3:43]    Album only
RUBBER BUNS AND LIQUOR God Moves on the Water [4:35]    Album only
STEFAN BUSCHER Sweeter as the Years Roll By [2:39]    Album only
WADE Go With Me To That Land [2:53]    Album only
HENRY LOWMAN Let Your Light Shine On Me [5:07] 
I would like to dedicate this song to my dear, dear Mom, Ingrid Schrader Lowman, who passed away March 28th. She was the BEST parent, my best critic, my best fan and my best friend. I miss her SO much, and love her SO SO much!!! -Henry Lowman
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WICHITA SAM If I Had My Way [5:50]    Album only
C# MERLE Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground [3:07]    Album only

FREE - Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar LIVE

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar LIVE - 2005

Before the documentary, "Songs Inside the Box," there was the historic "Rolling Fusion" concert on May 26, 2005 in York, PA. Featuring Gerry Thompson, Boz (the Godfather of the Cigar Box Guitar), Tomi-O and his father Ralph Hartwell, Ray nutter and Shane Speal's band, Jug Fusion. "It was supposed to be another typical Jug Fusion," recalls Speal, "until the out-of-state license plates started showing up. Unbeknownst to me, a covert jam was being planned for my 35th birthday." Speal says, "first it was Tomi-O and his daddy, Ralph who drove 10 hours straight after a full day of work in Virginia. Then Ray Nutter came in from Hinton, WV and Gerry & Diane arrived from Jersey." Speal continues, "but it was the sight of Boz...standing on the sidewalk with his Turbo Diddley in hand that made me want to cry. This was the greatest birthday gift I ever received. Ever. I'm the richest man in the world with these guys as my friends. this bootleg recording is magical."

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  Track Title  
Gerry Thompson - Drinkin' Aftershave [2:48]    Album only
Gerry Thompson - Shoot Her in the Head [3:08]    Album only
Gerry Thompson - You Don't Love Me Anymore [3:51]    Album only
Gerry Thompson - Almost Man [1:56]    Album only
Gerry Thompson - Imagine That [3:32]    Album only
Boz and Shane - Spoonful [3:24]    Album only
Boz and Shane - Time Seems Like [4:04]    Album only
Boz and Shane - Blues Jam [1:24]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Summertime Blues/I Got the Goat In Me [4:06]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Black Betty/Slow Motion/Sunshine of Your Love [7:09]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Tension Break [3:06]    Album only
Tomi-O and Ray Nutter - Orangeman [4:24]    Album only
Tomi-O and Ray Nutter - New Age Hillbilly Jam [3:04]    Album only
The Hartwells - Mama Tried [1:48]    Album only
The Hartwells - The Whiskey Ain't Working [2:11]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Indian Hill [3:56]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Lowebow and Guitar Jazz Jam [5:58]    Album only
Jug Fusion - Voodoo Child [6:07]    Album only

©2010 Shane Speal