This is the album for the vintage Delta Blues and cigar box guitar aficionado. A full album with only 3 sting guitar 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 20\'s and 30\'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 is soulful Blues that will change your musical life.
...and if there ever is a Blues \"RED\" Button warning, you definitely will enjoy the song \"Ryland\", imagine walking through a ghost town in the 1880\'s, the suspense, the mystery, the whispers that you can barley hear, this is a fantastic song 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.
Whelp, enough chatter from me, the album isfor sale anytime,give it a try, you\'ll love it! 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, John SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Shipping in the USA (8 to 12 days) First Class Mail
Overseas & Worldwide (14 to 21 days) Stamped \"Air-Mail\"***The fine print.No Guitar is included in this sale, this is a CDfor sale in this sale!ThisCD was not made toget rich, It is a labor of love. I wanted to make an Album that was as close to as possibleto the music played in the early 1900\'s.It took about 4 months to make this CD.However,due to the time investedTHERE IS NO REFUNDI build and sell guitars (Red Dog Guitars)I hardly have grand ideas of sellingCD\'sto retire on. If you have time, come check them out, Goggle \"Red Dog Guitars\"
This music wasrecordedin my house withvintage recording gear and cigar box guitarsIn a Studio? nope...my kid\'sroom??? yes!itwas several 100 hours worth of work inrecording and editingUp front info about the wrapping and mailing,You are buying a super fun,Cigar Box Guitar musicCompact Disc,not bells and whistles and fancy wrapping that willhave no use.I take pride in that fact, I would be embarrassed to send you useless plastic wrapping materialthat crap will only end up in a landfill,case in point, this video here Watch this video, it will open your eyes.This CD hasNo cellophane, No Plastic shrink wrap, No Plastic cover!
This CD Cover is hand printed and hand pressed with vintage wood block printing, Printed On Thick Brown Card Board made from recycled paper.The CD cover isa lot ofwork to hand print by me one at a time.I am proud there is NO PLASTIC or Computer printed covers!
*Ok, so you want to know a bit more about Delta Blues and cigar box guitar history???? \"...boy, you\'d better start a\' strum\'n that boxand play me a ditty, or I\'m gonna\' get off my horse...\" \"WILD BILL\" HICKOCK 1869
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, Lightin\' Hopkins and all those other old-time bluescats started playing guitar on a cigar box guitar. Not many people who follow Blues and Country music know 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.To most Americans it\'s a little know fact that those \"po\' boys\" of the years gone by played the Cigar Box Guitar. Well, now you know,this is how they did it...This ain\'t “Close, but no cigar”....This is following completely in their footsteps with Historical Civil War Era Roots. Cigar Box Guitars are great for a Killer Vintage National Oahu supro or valco sound without plugin\' in effects or being reduced to buying an Asian made guitar. Most Acoustics, Resonators, Flattops, Lap Steels and Banjos can\'t even come close to the true primitive Southern Delta sound these guitars make. These instruments can be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for a more primal sound. Blues guitarists, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars in a searchof playing Delta Blues in its purest form. Countless numbers of these contraptions were created by musicians starting about 150 years ago in the Southern American Delta. In those Cotton fields and Plantations of yester-year is where it all started. At the end off the 1860\'s when money was scarce after the Civil War, there was a passion for music in America and it was overflowing. Sad as it is, but in our nation\'s history, before the Civil War,----Jim Crow had separated whites and blacks with both cultural and musical boundaries. Buteven as bad as it was back then,there were good people inour new nation,and after the War in about 1870 the majority of people were ready to put aside their prejudices and get on with their lives. The war was over, and as the Union had forgiven the South out of Brotherhood, and as white people embraced the cultures of the black,both Union and Confederate, along with Black and White people, everyone was trying to move on with lives together. This early time in America was a difficult time for Black Americans. They made a whole culture of there pain, we know it as the \"Blues\". Music was a great and important aspect of early American life. However, when blackAmericans were given there firstview of freedomit wasthe 1870\'sandAmerica in ruins, little money was had as a disposable income 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 guitar home to almost every corner of America. Ex-slaves and Soldiers used left over wood boxes, tin cans, string, broom handles, baling and screen wire and whatever else was lying around the house, shed or barn to create their instruments. It\'s now a forgotten part of our history, but when enslaved Africans were brought to this countrybefore the 1800\'s, they came without possessions, but not without their culture. In their memories, their customs, and their ways of looking at their world, they carried their cultural arts with them enslaved to America. These arts would enrich the New World, as Africans and Europeans mixed together and began to build the American way of life. African music, rooted in a distinctive musical tradition, was one of the most important of these cultural arts. The majority of their music was based on simple stringed instruments such as their \"banjar\"{a gourd with a neck and strings from Africa} which is thought to be the precursor of the American stringed guitar the \"Banjo\". The best known written accord of this early guitar is probably that of Thomas Jefferson in 1781: \"The instrument proper to them {i.e. the slaves} is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa.\" But becauseenslaved peopledidn\'t have access to their native instruments they quickly adapted and built their own. At the time the basis of this guitar was the cigar box. The use of a stringed instrument was also a necessity becauseslaves had many gatherings that called for and involved music. The cigar box guitar was used as an integrated part of there \"cakewalk\" celebration before it left the plantation and became popularized by whites.{it was a common religious slaves event were one would put a cake in the middle of the floor and dance around it to music, the best dance (or imitation of theirmaster) would win the cake;an expression that transpired into the American expression \"easy as a Cakewalk\" i.e.-to be easy or fun or \"takes the cake\" -to win} The use of this stringed guitar slowly after time made its way into the mainstream of our Southern culture. Being spread from plantation to plantation it eventually evolved into and led to the creation of \"The American Banjo\". This in turn at the same time in popularizing the use of the steel-string guitar in our culture. This was a fad that slowly spread eastward to the cities and streets of American big cities and clubs (referred to as \"parlors\" at that time)It helped createthe basis of guitar and eventually musically transformed itself again and led to the rise and use of the \"Parlor guitar\". Duringthistime the cigar box guitar was influencing all types of folk music which was sweeping thru underground American culture. In the \"Root\'s\", however, at the same time as the guitars popularity slowly rose in America, without money or true freedom,a slave, sharecropper, or impoverished person living in the countryside couldn\'t simply go down to the store and buy a guitar. Thus recreating the cycle of need to make your own guitar. 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 1930\'s Depression Era. Many of the people who built these curious guitars went on to become American 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 box, stick and baling wire. Years later, he would take the knowledge he first learned on that down-home axe to create \"Blue Suede Shoes.\" That sure got Elvis to stand up strait the first time he heard that, after that HE WAS HOOKED on the BLUES!!! \"Beans\" Hambone, Blind Willie Johnson, and Charlie Christian, are actually some of the people who have been known to even record with this amazing instrument. Not only that, because most of these basic guitars usually didn\'t have frets, the po\' folk needed a way to play them......That is what is thought to be the creation of slide guitar in the Southern Delta. The precursor to the cigar box guitar as an instrument was the diddly-bow. It was a one stringed instrumentwhere you would take a Coke bottle or Rum neck and run it up and down a string to achieve the tone you’re after. Those crude instruments along with the cigar box guitar is what melded into the form of slide guitar were familiar with today.From Son House, Robert Johnson, to Muddy Waters and Elmore James they were all influenced in some way by these instruments following in there career as slide players. That’s where the blues and slide guitar truly started at. On those plantations and cotton fields the cigar box guitar and \'field hollerin\' went hand in hand. Blues players didn\'t play Gibsons, Resophonic or Weissenborn! They couldn\'t afford them.B.B. King growing up a poor Cotton sharecroppers son dreamed of buying his first guitar from the Sears catalog, After going to the local 5 and Dime his father knew he didn’t even have enough money for even food much less $2 for a used Stella guitar, His only option was to \"hit\" the shed, and it\'s well documented he made his son\'s first guitar from a simple cigar box. It\'s also 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 never knew.\" -Ralph Ellison, schoolmate of Charlie Christian.Taken form a direct quote from Lightin\' Hopkins was;\"So I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.\"-Lightin\' Hopkins No Guitar is included in this sale, this is a CD Album for sale in this sale!Circa 1880\'s Cigar Box Instrument
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 were familiar with didn’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, as well as most of the 19thcigars were extremely popular, card games, Saloon\'n and those great Mississippi Paddleboats helpedspread them throughout the south. Because of the widespread popularity of smoking in those days, many empty cigar boxes would be just laying around. Unlike times are today, the 1800’s was 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 two Civil War Soldiers at a campsite with one playing a cigar box instrument as another tired soldier relaxed near by to listen. 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 Music CD for sale in this sale!
