The Arkansas Tuning was originally created by cigar box guitarist, AJ Gaither and references his home state.  Shane Speal says, "this tuning is pretty simple, but man, does it open some old passageways for me! " 

The EADG tuning is identical to the four lowest strings of a conventional guitar and is tuned like one, too.  This means you can use your four string cigar box guitar to play all the songs you first learned on "normal" guitars.  Listen how cool it sounds:

This video was developed through the Reso-Electro Project, a cigar box guitar how-to collaboration between C. B. Gitty and Shane Speal.  It includes a four-part blog on building, hacking and setting up this sweet instrument:

How to Build This Guitar - THE RESO-ELECTRO PROJECT: https://cbgitty.com/news/reso-pt1

Get Shane Speal Signature Arkansas Strings at CBGitty.com

See all of the Shane Speal Signature line of cigar box guitar stuff: https://www.cbgitty.com/shane-speal-signature/

Shane's music is at http://shanespeal.com