HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- "That a place that's so technically oriented would find so much joy in celebrating funky homemade instruments is kind of strange," blues guitarist deluxe Microwave Dave Gallaher ...

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

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 ...

It was an offer they couldn't refuse. Savannah's best blues guitarists were offered a free cigar box guitar in exchange for donating their talents to a free concert that will be presented Aug. 6 at ...

Just out of high school in Kansas City, Missouri, aspiring guitarist Samantha Fish attended the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. In an area called the Midway, she saw solo musicians ...

Pary Flynn's cigar box guitar made from an old sycamore tree that was on the Faucek/McKee Farm in Edwardsville. The farm is currently being developed into commercial businesses across from the ...

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 ...

When Diane Sutliff started making cigar-box guitars in late 2008, she was driven by curiosity, some innate craftiness, and the desire to improve upon someone else’s work—the same things that seem to ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There’s a raw, almost primitive electricity that sizzles off “Lucy & ...

LOS ANGELES — The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chain saws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy ...