Cigar Box Guitar Pickups For Sale ~ 3 and 4 String Americana ~ Old West Red Dog Guitars USA - YouTube
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[isdntekvideo] They are simple hand made and homemade guitar pickups made for cigar box guitar. If you are looking for a unique one of a kind pickup to give your cigar box guitar a rustic Americana look and feel, these will provide a great look, a great sound, and will offer a lifetime of happiness.Billy Gibbons' of ZZ-Top playing Cigar Box Guitar ~ Ry Cooder's Billy The Kid - YouTube
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This sound recording of Ry Cooder's song "Billy The Kid" is performed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top and is an excerpt from a Mark Maron interview. I have presented it here for educational and commentary purposes only in relation to the brief discussion about of the history of the cigar box guitar as a long forgotten instrument in American history. (Copyright Law 107-Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use section; 40) All Copyrights for this material are the property of their respective owners.If you are interested in the hobby of Cigar Box Guitars. I have 4 different disc available on the subject.
Here is the list,
1. Understanding 3 string Guitar - How To play lessons DVD
2. How To Build - 3 & 4 String Cigar Box Guitars DVD
3. Dust Bowl Blues - 3 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
4. Cigar Box Americana - 3 & 4 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
The 3 string Lessons DVD is called "Understanding 3 string guitar." It covers all the playing styles heard in Blues guitar playing, both slide and finger style to help you get that old time vintage sound. Even if you've never played guitar before, it's never to late to learn how to play cigar box guitar, even if you are 70!
Slide guitar is basically just one finger guitar. You can learn to play theses guitars, It is not hard at all.
The How to Build DVD covers in-depth how to build 3 & 4 string cigar box guitars. These guitars are just as much fun to build as they are to play. Anyone can build a great guitar, even on you first time if you have correct instruction and explanation, you only need a few common hand tool that most people already have.
I also have 2 different Cigar Box Guitar music CD's,
The best way to learn how to play great cigar box guitar, is to listen to cigar box guitar music.
One is called "Dust Bowl Blues." This is an all Delta Blues an all cigar box guitar CD recorded mostly with 3 sting cigar box guitar, it's all cigar box guitar and Blues music.
The other music CD is called "Cigar Box Americana." This is old time Delta Blues and Southern Bottleneck cigar box guitar that has been recorded on both 3 & 4 string cigar box guitars and also using vintage amps and Retro Radios turned into amplifiers.
All of the music and videos I have recorded are only on the topic of Cigar Box Guitar, no regular guitars are used.
You can see the DVDs and Cigar Box Music CDs - Click Here
Email me if you have any questions, John