All Videos Tagged Perkins (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation 2024-05-04T04:36:27Z https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Perkins&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Blues on a $2.99 Good Will Guitar. tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2023-08-08:2592684:Video:3791797 2023-08-08T21:18:47.544Z Uncle John https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JohnBolton <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/blues-on-a-2-99-good-will-guitar"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12183403467?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a> <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/blues-on-a-2-99-good-will-guitar"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12183403467?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a> Peabody Coal Blues tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2023-03-16:2592684:Video:3760594 2023-03-16T15:21:11.688Z Uncle John https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JohnBolton <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/peabody-coal-blues"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998565491?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>This might be my fave of my original songs and it IS played on my most fun to play instrument. I have posted this song before on cigar box mandolin and DGBE acoustic. First time posting on my plugged in Iowa LPG with Iowa saxophone. And I live in the heart of Iowa and within a few miles of several now abandoned coal… <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/peabody-coal-blues"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998565491?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />This might be my fave of my original songs and it IS played on my most fun to play instrument. I have posted this song before on cigar box mandolin and DGBE acoustic. First time posting on my plugged in Iowa LPG with Iowa saxophone. And I live in the heart of Iowa and within a few miles of several now abandoned coal mines. Midnight Special from the Poopshoe Perkins LIVE album tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2023-03-03:2592684:Video:3756966 2023-03-03T20:22:03.802Z Uncle John https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JohnBolton <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/midnight-special-from-the-poopshoe-perkins-live-album"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10992201865?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>This is a song based on a legend. The legend was that if you were a prisoner in Sugarland Prison in Texas and if the train headlight shined through your prison cell window onto you, -that you would soon be released.<br></br> <br></br> A lot of folks have done this song with Ledbelly doing an early version and CCR doing maybe the best known version on their… <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/midnight-special-from-the-poopshoe-perkins-live-album"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10992201865?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />This is a song based on a legend. The legend was that if you were a prisoner in Sugarland Prison in Texas and if the train headlight shined through your prison cell window onto you, -that you would soon be released.<br /> <br /> A lot of folks have done this song with Ledbelly doing an early version and CCR doing maybe the best known version on their 1969 Willy and The Poor Boys album.<br /> <br /> So far as I know, I am the only one to record it on his 73rd birthday! Nobody's Business - pretty much to let you know I am still alive & kicking tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2022-04-28:2592684:Video:3709271 2022-04-28T16:07:35.293Z Uncle John https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JohnBolton <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/nobody-s-business-pretty-much-to-let-you-know-i-am-still-alive"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10446034488?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Heard Mississippi John do this song this AM and thought I would do a vid of it just to let you few CBN folks know I am still around and kicking. <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/nobody-s-business-pretty-much-to-let-you-know-i-am-still-alive"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10446034488?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Heard Mississippi John do this song this AM and thought I would do a vid of it just to let you few CBN folks know I am still around and kicking. LIVE from the Blues Men Wanna BE - Open Mic stage at Cally Fest. Trouble In Mind tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2022-03-31:2592684:Video:3705224 2022-03-31T14:21:49.808Z Uncle John https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JohnBolton <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/live-from-the-blues-men-wanna-be-open-mic-stage-at-cally-fest"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10252366496?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Trouble In Mind- Traditional 8 bar blues on ho-made 4 string reso (in Chicago DGBE) tuning and Iowa Saxophone. <a href="https://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/live-from-the-blues-men-wanna-be-open-mic-stage-at-cally-fest"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10252366496?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Trouble In Mind- Traditional 8 bar blues on ho-made 4 string reso (in Chicago DGBE) tuning and Iowa Saxophone.