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Hi all, from Oaxaca. I just wrote a piece about the CBG

Greetings. I found about about the cigar box guitar less than two weeks ago (via Sir Paul), and already I've ordered one and written a piece about it.

I'm a novelist (and a bad slide guitarist), originally from Canada, now in Mexico, via Manhattan.

The piece is on the front page of the Huffington Post, and is getting a bunch of attention. Not sure why people are reading about guitars, ten minutes before the end of the world, but it says something good about our species. I link to this site, via the Resofiddle, but -- like an idiot -- I neglected to mention Cigar Box Nation by name. Sorry about that. Of course, people will find it in a nanosecond, if they start looking into the CBG with Google, etc.

The article is here: http://huff.to/XU4aFV

Hope I didn't make any egregious errors. As I say: this is all new to me. But I'll have my Bluesboy Jag Avo Heritage in a few days...

Nice to be here!

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on December 21, 2012 at 5:55am

I like how casual you are in referring to yourself as being a novelist ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Anthony Cooper on December 21, 2012 at 10:54am

Hey, it's my job!

(Whereas slide guitarist very much isn't my job. *I* wouldn't hire me to play guitar.)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Anthony Cooper on December 21, 2012 at 11:55am

You're welcome! Hope I didn't make any errors in fact. (I really am new to this.)

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on December 21, 2012 at 1:20pm

i think your "coolness" just stepped up a notch ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Anthony Cooper on December 21, 2012 at 2:46pm

That's all that matters.

(Although it would be nice to pick up a few more skills as a guitarist. Competence would do.)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Anthony Cooper on December 22, 2012 at 12:12pm

Thanks, Kiwi. (Which forums do you frequent? I was under the impression that this was CBG Central. Are there shadowy corners of the Internet where people gather to whisper about ancient musical tech?)

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Permalink Reply by Penny Nelson on December 22, 2012 at 11:49am

Hi and welcome to The Nation.

You realise you have fallen down the rabbit hole and there is no going back don't you? Like Alice you are in for a mysterious journey filled with amazing characters with back stories that will entrance you as much as their playing & builds :D

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on December 22, 2012 at 4:57pm

indeed penny ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Anthony Cooper on December 22, 2012 at 5:19pm

Curiouser and curiouser.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on December 22, 2012 at 7:29pm

Bet you can't build just one. Welcome to the insanity. Nice article.

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Permalink Reply by Order99 on December 22, 2012 at 8:24pm

Don't feel bad about your playing-i'm still mastering the intricacies of 'Mary Had Aa Little Lamb' and the opening riff of Smoke on the Water'...

I hope you stick around the Nation for awhile-and once you've had a little fun with your CBG, build a few for even more fun! If a ham-fisted,near-sighted and tone-deaf idiot like me can make playable instruments out of cookie tins,boxes and tennis raccquets, then ANYBODY can!