HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- He wears cool-looking hats and plays instruments made out of cigar boxes. Chapel Hill, N.C. slide guitar wizard Justin Johnson also writes and performs what he calls "innovative ...

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 ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Cigar box guitars. Is there a better example of upcycling in the music world? Often pieced together out ...

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 ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

The Cigar Box Guitar is hardly essential, but it has an undeniable appeal, and it's fun. Not much volume from the piezo. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...