Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 1

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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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Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 2

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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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Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 3

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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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Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Volume 4

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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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"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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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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