Category Archives: Primal Rock
Bring the Cigar Box Guitar Tour to your town!
Shane Speal and 315 Artist Management Group are preparing an East Coast tour this year. This will be the most professional and mainstream concert event ever seen in the CBG world… with stops in PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS and also COLLEGE … Continue reading
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Peg Leg Sam
I recently bought a used Dodge van with a stereo featuring a CASSETTE deck. Instead of just putting an adapter in there, I went thru all my old cassettes and have been listening to them all. I love it! One … Continue reading
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Seasick Steve – I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry
There’s no end to this man’s genius…
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Knotlenny, the amazing one man band
Phelps, NY musician Kevin Sprague, aka “Knotlenny” performs “Sweet Sue” in a traditional one-man-band setting with the back-mounted bass drum/cymbals and plays a cigar box guitar and kazoo. Amazing!
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Presidential Axeology pt.3 – The guitar that started it all
We continue our feature on the heavily modded instruments of Chris Ballew, frontman for the Presidents of the United States of America. Today’s instrument starts with a1960′s fiberglass-body electric guitar made by the Valco Guitar Company. Although unbranded on the … Continue reading
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Cigar Box Christmas – inside and back covers
I just received a great little gift from Soulcatcher: inside and back covers for the free Christmas download. He created them in case anyone wanted to make a physical copy of the album and print out the covers. Soulcatcher is … Continue reading
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Your daily dose of awesomeness: Seasick Steve
Seasick Steve with the Mississippi Drum Machine and the 3-String Trance Wonder. Classic…
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Your daily dose of awesomeness: Tom Waits
It has just been announced that Tom Waits will be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14. This is one of my favorite videos on the entire internet. Everything is just perfect: the tremolo laden … Continue reading
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Your daily dose of awesomeness: Purgatory Hill
“Baby Love” by the primal rock gods, Purgatory Hill. Yes, that’s a double-neck cigar box guitar pAt mAcdonald is playing. It’s called a Lowebow and it sports a bass string (top neck) and three guitar strings (bottom neck). He’s also … Continue reading
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Your daily dose of awesomeness: Hollowbelly
“Long Road” by Hollowbelly. From the album PUNK, NORTHERN AND BLUE. Buy the album/download here.
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