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This is you one stop for all Cigar Box Radio, Streaming and Podcasting. Just Click on the "Show's" Tab and pick a show that fits you listening needs. If you are lost or searching for 'the sound' that will once again make you whole, relax, you've arrived. This station plays songs from some of the best musicians you will hear, and on instruments born largely of their own ingenuity. These guys represent the heart and soul of the prim rock movement and its primary subversion, the cigar box revolution. Get to know these names, they will likely rule the world some day. Songs by Johnny Lowebow, Shane Speal, Rollie Tussing, Doctor Oakroot, Stacy Puckett, Doomstown Jug Sluggers, Boz, Gerry Thompson, and many more... Listen in, you won't be disappointed. - Tha Goat
The Cigar Box Guitar
The cigar box guitar is a primitive chordophone whose resonator is a discarded cigar box. Because the instrument is homemade, there is no standard for dimensions, string types or construction techniques. Many early cigar box guitars consisted of only one or two strings that were attached to the ends of a broomstick that was inserted into the cigar box. Other cigar box guitars were more complex, with the builder attempting to simulate a traditional string instrument such as a guitar, banjo, or fiddle.
“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.”
-Lightnin’ Hopkins
-Lightnin’ Hopkins