This isan allDelta Blues and cigar box guitar album with only 3 sting guitar and Blues music.In this album I wanted to delve deeper into strictly authentic Delta Blues and BottleNeck music only played on three string cigar box guitar. The goal with this album was to take the listener back to the 1880\'s up to the 1930\'s and relive those Dust Bowl BottleNeck Ballads and Delta Blues Guitar Spirituals only playedwith a 3 string cigar box guitar with NO SINGING or band, only vintage guitar playing.
Watch this video to hear what\'s on the Album If you love raw, primitive and Authentic Delta Blues, American Folk music or Bottle neck slide, you will listen to this CD 100\'s of times, covering all styles of Americana, from Son House\'s licks re-written \"Red Dog\" Style, to Woodie Guthrie\'s \"Dust Bowl Ballads\" that will leave your jaw on the floor and your ears weepin\' for more. This disc isOld timeBlues&Bottleneck slide guitarthat will take you back in time.
Recorded with only 3 string cigar box guitars, this is a musical journey into Americas past, imagine walking through an oldghost town in the 1880\'s, the suspense, the mystery, the whispers that you can barley hear,there is manyfantastic songs played in the Ry Cooder style that will take your breath away.
NO regular guitars, NO singing, just homemade 3 string cigar box guitars. These are ALL NEW NEVER BEFORE HEARD SONGS.
If you would like to hear and see how some of these recording were made watch this short video,Whelp, enough chatter from me, the album isfor sale anytime,give it a try, you will enjoyit! If it\'s not your thing,thanks for your time in reading this and you can enjoy the short trailer of the album above. Thanks again, JohnSHIPPING WORLDWIDE Shipping in the USA (8 to 12 days) First Class Mail
Overseas & Worldwide (14 to 21 days) Stamped \"Air-Mail\"****The Fine PrintNo Guitar is included in this sale,this is a CDfor sale in this sale!ThisCD was a labor of love. I wanted to make an album that was as close as possibleto the music played in the 1880\'s up tothe 1950\'s and only played on cigar box guitar.To recordand organize this musictook me about 4 months to complete. All of themusic wasrecordedby me in my house withvintage recording gear and cigar box guitars.A lot of the music was recorded with vintagetape decks and recorded Analog. Itis one of the reasons it was so labor intensive.This projectwas several 100 hours worth of work in writing,recording and editing.Recordingmusic with vintage recording gear is whatgivesthis music naturallyauthentic tone.
However,due to the time investedTHERE IS NO REFUNDI build and sell guitars (Red Dog Guitars) I hardly have grand ideas of sellingmusic CD\'sto retire on. If you have time, come check my guitarsout, they are my real passion, I loveto build them and see other people play them and to see the joy they create in peoples lives, just Goggle \"Red Dog Guitars\" to see my stuff.
I would also like to share a massage about my craft and the wrapping and packaging I use. When working both in my shop and in my home, I try to recycle everything I can. It\'s NOT a political statement, nor a new \"hip\" trend I follow. Ijust personally hate throwing away large amounts of plastic and cardboard garbage. The guitars I build are made from old cigar boxes and salvaged or reclaimed wood. It\'s not just what I do, but who I am as a person. So when wrapping or mailing item. I would be embarrassed to send you useless plastic or wasteful wrapping material that is just raw garbage. It will have no use and will only end up in a landfill.
This disc hasNO Plasticcellophane, No Plastic shrink wrap andNo Plastic covers.
Still here? .....Would you like tolearn more about thehistory of the cigar box guitar?
Well, what is a Cigar Box Guitar? The truth is, in the South it\'s common to hear stories that B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Lightnin\' Hopkins and all those other old-time bluesguys started playing guitar on a cigar box guitar. Not many people who follow Blues and Country music know this,but many famous Bluesmen and Country singers started their career on a simple homemade cigar box guitar. One reason most Blues and Country 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 instrumentwherethe playerwould take a Coke bottle or Rum bottle neck and run it up and down a string while plucking the opposite end of the string to achieve the tonethey whereafter. These basic \"guitars\" didn\'t have frets and this crudeform of guitar playing is what melded into the form of slide guitar were familiar with today. That is what is thought to be the creation of slide guitar in the \"Southern Delta.\"
From Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Watersto Elmore James, they were all influenced in some way by these early homemade instruments following alongin their career as slideguitar players. That\'s where the blues and slide guitar truly started at. On those plantations and cotton fields, homemadeguitars and \'field hollerin\' went hand in hand. Blues players didn\'t play Gibsons or Martins,they couldn\'t afford them!
During the 1930\'s,B.B. King growing up a poor cotton sharecropper\'s son dreamed of buying his first guitar from the Sears catalog. His father wanted to buy him a guitar, but after going to the local 5 and Dime his father knew he didn\'t even have enough money for food, much less $2 for a used Stella guitar. Like so many of that era,his only option was to \"hit\" the shed and see what kind of parts he could come up with to buildhis son a guitar..... it\'s well documented he made his son \"Blues Boy King\" his first guitar from a simple cigar box.
From Blind Willie Johnson to Ligthnin\' Hopkin\'s, the list is long. Many of the biggest names in Blues and Rock played homemade guitars. It\'s been quoted that a schoolmate of the Legendary Blues guitarist Charlie Christian, said: \"[Charlie] would amaze us at school with his first guitar - one that he made with a cigar box. He would be playing his own riffs...but they were based on sophisticated chords and progressions that Blind Lemon Jefferson played.\" -Ralph Ellison, schoolmate of Charlie Christian.
It\'swell knownLightnin\' Hopkinsgot his start on the cigar box guitar.If you would like to hear Lightnin\' himself talk about hishomemade guitar, watch this short video...what\'s better than the man himself telling you, its\'o fact\'o! What am I speaking Italian here? Watch this video,
Many of the people who built these curious guitars went on to become America\'s best know Blues and Rock stars of the day. Rock \'n Roll pioneer Carl Perkins reminisced about his childhood cigar box guitar that he made with a cigar box, stick and baling wire. Years later, he would take the knowledge he first learned on that down-home axe to create the song\"Blue Suede Shoes.\" That sure got Elvis to stand up strait, after that HE WAS HOOKED on the BLUES!!!
This form of guitar playingfollows in the footsteps of those early Blues and Rock pioneers.Today\'s modern andChinese madeguitars can\'t even come close to the true primitive Southern Delta sound these handmade guitars make.Cigar Box Guitarscan be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for a more authentic sound. Blues guitarist, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars inthe searchof playing \"Delta Blues\" in its purest form. Today you can still find guitar playerswho are looking forthat raw and authentic sound and they chose to play cigar box guitars.
Here is a wonderful song played by Billy Gibbon\'s from ZZ-top, You will enjoy this song, have a listen,This sound recording of Ry Cooders\' 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.
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This story about what would make a poor person use a cigar box for a guitar in the first place began in the mid 1800\'s. The Cigar boxes that we arefamiliar with todaydidn\'t exist prior to the 1840\'s. Prior to then, cigars were shipped in larger crates containing 100 or more per case. But after 1842, due to exploration of the \"West,\" cigar manufacturers started using smaller, more portable boxes with only 20-50 cigars per box. In the Old West and through out the 1800\'scigars were extremely popular. Card games, Saloons and of corse those great Mississippi Paddleboats helpedspreadtobaccothroughout early America. Because of the widespread popularity of smoking in those days, many empty boxes would be just laying around. Unlike times are today, the 1800\'s were a simpler time for Americans, when necessity was truly the mother of invention. Being that most American music was based off of stringed instruments, using a cigar box to create a guitar, fiddle, or a banjo was an obvious choice for a few crafty souls. The earliest proof of a instrument made from a cigar box that has been found is an etching of a Civil War solider at the \"Siege of Charleston.\" Even during the Great Warthere was a passion for music in America and it was overflowing.1880\'s Homemade Cigar Box instrument
After The Civil War in the1870\'s, America in ruins. Little money was had to buy instruments. One thing for sure about American resilience is ingenuity was abound. After the War both Union and Confederate Soldiers along with now freed Slaves carried the knowledge and appreciation of this creative and homemade guitar back with themto almost every corner of America. Peopleused left over wood, cigarboxes, biscuit tin cans, string, broom handles, baling and screen wire and whatever else was lying around the house, shed or barn to create these crudehomemade instruments. Making a \"home-made\" guitar was the only choice for the impoverished. This tradition continued for decades among the poor for most of the late 1800\'s up till and thru the 1950\'s.Flash ahead to the birth of Rock& Roll and the 1950\'s and you\'ll findBo Diddley made and played his own guitars...I think you know what that was all about!
Those humble beginnings are what eventually gave the Cigar box Guitar a home in music history. Now even the Smithsonian Museum In Washington D.C. has an early homemade Cigar Box Guitar on display [c.1861] to show Americans true pride and the roots of all our guitar-playin\' Soul--- Now that\'s the Cigar Box Blues! If you would like to learn more about Delta Blues & Cigar Box GuitarsGoogle \"Red Dog Guitars\"...and, I am sorry but I have to repeat this because somewhere out there, someone will assume I am sending a guitar.I think it is because the music that I record and the guitars I build are so exciting and fun to watch, others want to participate and enjoy it themselves. It has happened before, people offer, then email saying \"I can\'t wait to get my guitar!!!\" So, once again, No Guitar is included in this sale, this is a CD for sale in this sale!
