Cigar Box Guitar Blues Music CD - Delta Blues & Resonator 3 string slide guitar

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This is a Delta Blues cigar box guitar music CD disc that was recorded in honor of the 3 sting guitar.
In these recordings, I wanted to record authentic Delta Blues and Bottleneck slide cigar box guitar as realistic as possible to what it would have sounded like in the early 1900's. The music on this Disc is played mostly on three string cigar box guitars. Some
of the tracks have 4 string cigar box guitar, but all of the tracks were only recorded with homemade cigar box guitars.
My goal with this album was to take the listener back in time to the 1880's and up to 1930's and to relive those old Dust Bowl Ballads and Delta Blues Spirituals played on cigar box guitars.
There is NO SINGING or band and NO regular guitars.
This music is only recorded with cigar box guitars.
Watch this video to hear some of the album,
Vintage 1880's-1930's Cigar Box & 3 String Guitar Old-Time Blues Playing - YouTube
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Listening to this music is like taking a journey into early America's 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 songs played in the Ry Cooder Paris Texas style on this album.
NO regular guitars and NO singing, This music is only cigar box guitars.
Here is another sample of the music on this CD,
This song was recorded using a cigar box guitar, a glass slide, and an old Pignose amp.
Red Dog Cigar Box Guitars ~ Homemade Recordings ~ Bottleneck Slides & Pignose Amps - YouTube
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Recording this music was a labor of love.
I wanted to make an album that was as close as possible to the music played on antique cigar box guitars from the past.
It took me about 4 months t
o record and organize this music.
All of the
music was recorded by me in my house with vintage amps and homemade recording gear and a room full of cigar box guitars.
A lot of the music was recorded analog.  This project
was many hours worth of work in creating, recording and editing.  Recording music in Lo-Fidelity and with vintage recording gear is what gives this music a naturally authentic tone.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and listening to the videos. I also have many other clips on Youtube, be sure to check them out. Thanks again, John
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I have recorded and put together this music CD that I myself would love to receive.
I
am also confident that you will enjoy this music so much, that the anticipation of ordering and waiting for your gritty and neat homemade Disc to show up, that when it does show up, you will have a greater appreciation for all the time and effort I put into it.
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A brief history of the cigar box guitar
What is a cigar box guitar?
In small towns in the South, it's common to hear stories of those old school Bluesmen of the past such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Little Freddie King and many others who got their start in music by building their own cigar box guitar.
Not many people who
follow Blues and Country music know this
. One reason most Blues and early Americana
music has such a distinctive sound is because it was derived off of music made on these simple
instruments.
The precursor to the cigar box guitar as an instrument was the diddly-bow. It was a one
stringed instrument where the player would take a glass bottle neck and run it up and down a string while plucking the opposite end of the string to achieve the tone they where after.
Because those basic "guitars" did not have frets, that early form of crude guitar playing is what
evolved into the form of slide guitar we are familiar with today. That is what is thought to be the creation of Delta Blues and slide guitar from the "Southern Delta."
From Muddy Waters to Elmore James, they were all influenced in some way by these
early homemade instruments.  Many of them 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 Gibsons or Martins, they couldn't afford them. If you grew up in poverty and wanted to play guitar, you had to build a guitar yourself.
Those humble beginnings of the cigar box guitar are what eventually gave this little known guitar a home in music history. This tradition of making and playing a homemade guitar continued from the 1880's and for many decades up until the 1950's, but this form of guitar construction never really went away. Many Blues musicians from the 60's, 70's and 80's kept this long forgotten art form alive.  Even though homemade guitars have faded into obscurity, some Blues and Rock musicians still enjoy playing them today.
Many of today's guitar players are looking for a truly "primitive and authentic sound" and the cigar box guitar naturally makes and records vintage style music. Cigar Box Guitars can be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for in their playing, giving them a more authentic sound. Blues guitarist, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars in the search of hearing "Delta Blues" in its purest form. Today you can still find guitar players who are looking for that raw and authentic sound from the past and they chose to play cigar box guitars.
Watch this video of Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top - it will take you back in time.
Billy Gibbons' of ZZ-Top playing Cigar Box Guitar ~ Ry Cooder's Billy The Kid - YouTube
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This sound recording of Ry Cooder's 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. (Copyright Law 107-Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use section; 40) All Copyrights for this material are the property of their respective owners.
If you want to learn more about cigar box guitars and the history about them. I have a website with lots of historic photos. Cigar Box guitars are my passion to build and play. I enjoy seeing other people play them and seeing the joy they create in peoples lives.
Goggle "Red Dog Guitars" to see more of my work.
If you are interested in the hobby of Cigar Box Guitars. I have 4 different disc available on the subject.
Here is the list,
1. Understanding 3 string Guitar - How To play lessons DVD
2. How To Build - 3 & 4 String Cigar Box Guitars DVD
3. Dust Bowl Blues - 3 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
4. Cigar Box Americana - 3 & 4 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
The 3 string
Lessons DVD is called "Understanding 3 string guitar." It covers all the playing styles heard in Blues guitar playing, both slide and finger style to help you get that old time vintage sound. Even if you've never played guitar before, it's never to late to learn how to play cigar box guitar, even if you are 70!
Slide guitar is basically just one finger guitar. You can learn to play theses guitars, It is not hard at all.
The How to Build DVD covers in-depth how to build 3 & 4 string cigar box guitars. These guitars are just as much fun to build as they are to play. Anyone can build a great guitar, even on you first time if you have correct instruction and explanation, you only need a few common hand tool that most people already have.
I also have 2 different Cigar Box Guitar music CD's,
The best way to learn how to play great cigar box guitar, is to listen to cigar box guitar
music.
One
is called "Dust Bowl Blues."
This is an all Delta Blues an all cigar box guitar CD recorded mostly with 3 sting cigar box guitar, it's all cigar box guitar and Blues music.
The other music CD
is called "Cigar Box Americana."
This is old time Delta Blues and Southern Bottleneck cigar box guitar that has been recorded on both 3 & 4 string cigar box guitars and also using vintage amps and Retro Radios turned into amplifiers.
All of the music and videos I have recorded are only on the topic of Cigar Box Guitar, no regular guitars are used.
You can see the DVDs and Cigar Box Music CDs - Click Here
Email me if you have any questions, John