WALLA WALLA, Wash. – For his pay-the-mortgage job, Kurt Schoen flies cargo for UPS. For his live-the-dream work, the Walla Walla man drives to a somewhat-secret location to play a different sort of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The world’s longest-running Cigar Box Guitar Music Festival is returning to The Rocket City! This three-day celebration of music, creativity, and community brings together ...

For three years, Archie Storey had been on a steady diet of Mississippi blues and was looking for a way into the music. The longtime BeBop Records employee listened to the blues constantly and ...

It sounds raw. It doesn’t sound like a nice guitar when you pick it up and strum it. It sounds different, unrefined. “You’re talking about a stick with strings on it, and a box wrapped around a stick, ...

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 ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

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 ...

North Carolina Musician Justin Johnson has always been drawn to stringed instruments. Starting with the beat up, one-string Stella guitar his mother handed down to him, Justin has played music with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...