All Videos Tagged unplugged (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation

Road Test 73'

2017-10-12T12:05:55.463Z

Hello Cigarbox community. Here is a little composition I made to test drive my new 1973 resonator I just built.

test gbg

2013-12-09T12:34:50.765Z

Hi! This is my first recording ever. Playing on my first cbg made from recycle parts. I build the cbg spring 2013. Got supriced how much noice a little cigarrbox can make. Love to play on it.

4 String Mutant Cookie Tin Banjo-Dobro-Slide Guitar "Unplugged" Mark Stowe

2011-10-01T19:43:12.766Z

Playing the Mutant Cookie Tin Banjo/Dobro/Slide Guitar that I made. . .
The body is an old cookie tin and the neck is a 3 foot 1/2
... the tuning gears once belonged to an old beaten up and broken classic guitar.

This is "Unplugged" or acoustic . . . even though I do have it wired for sound with a Piezo Transducer, I wanted this video to give an example of the instrument's natural sound. Sorry about the ground or white noise in the video, ...I tried to use an equalizer on the video to remove the white noise but it altered the tone of the instrument, so I decided to leave the sound alone with no equalizer

I got the thing tuned to this weird (top to bottom) D-D-g-d tuning, which I thought sounded cool

My First Paint Box Guitar First Test And Sounds

2011-04-03T08:31:06.934Z

Learning and training with my first paint box guitar....first test and sounds...very thin neck and homemade bridge...new strings 9-42 so bad tuning...cherry ...

Letter To My Younger Self - Demo

2011-02-23T13:55:44.949Z

The thing I did recently with my loop pedal and Cigar Box Strummer has turned into a song....here's a quick demo.
It's sort of me now (aged 51) talking to myself aged about 12 or so...wondering if the lyrics are a bit corny??? Opinions welcome.
LYRICS:

LETTER TO MY YOUNGER SELF

DON'T DO WHAT THEY SAY WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS
IF YOU MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF WELL THAT'S OK
GET TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE THEN LEARN TO LIKE IT
HOLD ONTO YOUR FRIENDS DON'T PUSH THEM AWAY

CHORUS
IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT WAS COMING
YOU WOULD TURN YOUR HEAD AWAY
BUT THE WORLD JUST KEEPS ON SPINNING
IT'S GONNA HAPPEN ANYWAY

REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT PERFECT
THEY JUST DO THE BEST THEY CAN
SO KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND CHANGE IT OFTEN
LAUGH AT EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CAN

CHORUS

I DON'T PRETEND TO KNOW THE ANSWERS
I STUMBLE ALONG MOST OF THE TIME
JUST WANTED TO TRY TO MAKE THINGS EASIER
THAT'S WHY I WROTE THIS LETTER FOR YOU

CHORUS