HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival is set for Saturday, June 3rd, but that may leave some wondering… what is a cigar box guitar? The do-it-yourself instrument is ...

Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

In the parking lot of York Emporium, a bookstore and repository of pop culture miscellany in York, Penn., Justin Johnson has set up camp. On Thursday night, he and partner Nikki Jaegar parked their RV ...

Nobody knows you when you're down and out. And if you have a heart attack on the same day Michael Jackson dies, it's even worse. "June 25, 2009, I'll never forget it. I'm lying there like this," ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

For the past few years, Anthony Walker has been elbows deep in sawdust, perfecting his latest consuming passion. In his workshop outside Columbia in Blythewood, the luthier — or guitar maker — who ...