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  • Curmudgeons of Cigar Box Nation

    Curmudgeons of Cigar Box Nation

    60 members Latest Activity: Feb 23, 2020

    A place for all of us disgruntled old farts to gather and do curmudgeonly things. Stand up and flaunt your attitude! We've earned the right to be…

  • Cigar Box Basses

    Cigar Box Basses

    404 members Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2022 Where the lords of the lower frequencies dwell!!!

  • Teisco and vintage Japanese Lovers group.

    Teisco and vintage Japanese Lovers group.

    100 members Latest Activity: Apr 1, 2020

    For all things Teisco. AND those sweet vintage japanese guitars with those vintage pickups made by Teisco that no guitar on the planet can match.…

  • Chinese/English CBG Cultural Interest Group

    Chinese/English CBG Cultural Interest Group

    12 members Latest Activity: Mar 25, 2017 A CBN group designed to promote cultural exchanges between China and the West, especially as they relate to cigar box guitars and both guitars and…

  • DOOM FOLK COLLECTIVE

    DOOM FOLK COLLECTIVE

    66 members Latest Activity: Dec 10, 2021 A place for posting music and videos exploring music inspired by artists like Olds Sleeper, Purgatory Hill, Crow Tongue and Cracklebone. The "tone"…

  • CIGAR BOX KALIMBAS

    CIGAR BOX KALIMBAS

    115 members Latest Activity: Apr 20, 2021 Putting the THUMB in the strum...

  • Cigar Box Fiddlers

    Cigar Box Fiddlers

    90 members Latest Activity: Mar 12, 2020 welcome to my new group. lets talk bowed instruments.

  • CBG News

    CBG News

    208 members Latest Activity: Aug 29, 2016 A home for news articles, interviews, press releases and anything that's out there spreading the word, or what you want out there spreading the…

  • CONCRETE MUSIC

    CONCRETE MUSIC

    51 members Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2016 Putting the avant back to the garde! Taking CBG to the outer limits where, to quote Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn…

  • Three string guitars

    Three string guitars

    669 members Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022

    Everything about anything that's a three stringer

  • BOOTLEGGERS AND MUSIC TRADERS

    BOOTLEGGERS AND MUSIC TRADERS

    64 members Latest Activity: Jan 21, 2020 Music builds community, and so this is a group of people who want to share music with one another, and discuss the albums we share. Blues, lofi,…

  • How to Play a Cigar Box Guitar

    How to Play a Cigar Box Guitar

    877 members Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022 Playing tips and secrets. Tunings. Primal music theory.

  • CB Nation Recording Studio

    CB Nation Recording Studio

    260 members Latest Activity: Feb 6, 2018 An experimental recording collective where members of the Nation can collaborate on music with other members. Please start a new discussion for each…

  • Good Wood

    Good Wood

    135 members Latest Activity: Mar 19, 2017 For everyone who gets excited by rare timbers, turned on by a good burr, or maybe you just have a technical query about working something new? Feel…

  • The Art Room

    The Art Room

    79 members Latest Activity: Oct 23, 2018 Show your artistic talents beyond CBG's or Cbg's with your own artistic touches.Oil's ,Watercolors,Carvings anything art.(NO NUDES PLEASE!Ugly ones…

  • The Great Northwest

    The Great Northwest

    96 members Latest Activity: Aug 17, 2020 Its time to organise the brothers in The Pacific Northwest. Lets get this network goin so's we can have festivals and such like our southern bros.…

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