OT: Playing a cigar box guitar?

[fredinator]

I think the song the young man plays is lovely--sad and lovely... I never thought about what Muddy Waters played and so forth but it makes sense that it would be something homemade? Anyway, if there is a PBS show re: cigar box guitars and 1880s Delta blues, I am really looking forward to watching it... I wonder how Neal would sound on one of these?

http://www.vanderbilly.com/Guitar-Lesson-American+1880%27s+Delta+Blues+,8561,1.html

[Arianddu]

Wow! That was great! I've just spent the last hour listening to link after follow-on link. Love me some blues Thanks for posting the link.

[wednesday's child]

I think I want to build myself one of those badboys.
Thanks for the link.

-wech

[jrnyman28]

Well, I can't view anything because I am work. But I read the message from the guy who posted this. What do you think?

---- there is nothing for sale here or on my website!---
I am only sharing with those that like Blues.
This is how the blues are played....they cannot be played on a store bought guitar....try this, make your own cigar box guitar and I promise you will have just as much fun building a simple guitar from your leftover junk as playing it!
this is not a sales pitch.
this is about the resurgence of an American Tradition....don't be fooled by the Guitar stores and there asiain made products!---this is An Open Leter to you!---Max Shores has Just made a PBS documentary on the Cigar box guitar in American History...from Muddy Water to Lighting hopkins, they all got there start on a cigar box guitar and he tells a wonderful story, it will air this spring nation wide........
I just got the lastst issue of Guitar Player mag in the mail. Cover is Slash (welcome to 1989) and touts him as the "Last Guitar Hero."Other articles feature the same tired stars they've been featuring for 30 years. Last month, it was Alan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather and the dude from Night Ranger. Yawn.

It's so apparent that the music world is on cruise control. They have no idea that there's fresh, exciting music out there. They're too full from a buffet of 'innovative' Chinese built guitars...hundreds ofnew re-hashed models each month filling their test labs. Yet all these guitars are just Strats or Les Pauls or dreadnaughts with other names on the headstocks. And the stars who play em? Same ol' same ol.'
They have no idea what's happening with the Cigar Box Guitar and Blues underground. We're gonna hit 'em where they ain't... By the time they realize what's happening, we're gonna be so far beyond the point of them catching up.There's magic in cigar boxes. It's fresh and exciting. My Guitar Player also came with a "final notice for renewal" card.///It's in the trash.
PREPARE, PEOPLE!!! FINALLY RECORD THAT DAMN ALBUM YOU'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT. MAX SHORES IS 3 WEEKS AWAY FROM FINISHING THE DOCUMENTARY!!! PEOPLE GET READY,THERE'S A TRAIN A'COMIN...PBS will air it nation wide!-----go....and make your own guitar....I promise you will have fun!

[fredinator]

Well, based on just the couple of songs I listened to from that cigar box were beautifully done--really touching... You could hear the poignancy in Muddy Waters' playing and in the other couple of songs I listened to. Whether it will ever catch on again, I don't know... Someone would have to be a pretty inventive musician I think--could be those times are gone forever. I agreed with a lot of what he said--but whether the old Delta blues updated to now would revolutionize current music, I just don't know. What do you think? Hope you get to listen to some of the tracks when you get home...

[Gideon]

I think I want to build myself one of those badboys.
Thanks for the link.

-wech

So you're like Morgan Freeman from Batman Begins?