Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edward Nasiatka had played in rock 'n roll bands for 20 years and had been playing guitar for over 60 years, but he had to stop ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – One annual music festival is returning to Huntsville to raise money for the Microwave Dave Education ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- "It almost feels like you're playing the air," Hymn for Her's Lucy Tight says of playing her cigar box guitar. "I love how light it is. And we don't need a bass player or a lead ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...

Jerry Timson of Florissant plays on a guitar he made from an old briefcase during the St. Louis Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the Highway 61 Roadhouse in Webster Groves. He ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WFFF) – With its entrancing sound and unique look, this is not your typical stringed instrument. It’s a cigar box guitar, and some of them are being made in Plattsburgh. Scott ...

SPRINGFIELD — If you want your kid to be the next Jimi Hendrix, you wouldn’t dare think of giving him several tabs of acid, 20 milligrams of amphetamines and a horde of groupies with loose morals. So ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...