Shane Speal plays "Blue Raga" on cigar box guitar

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, May 13, 2009 4:04 PM | permalink

"Shane Speal performs 'Blue Raga' at the 3rd annual Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza in Huntsville, Alabama. Speal is accompanied on cigar box lyre by Timothy Renner. This song is featured in Songs Inside The Box, the cigar box guitar documentary directed by Max Shores."

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#1 posted by Anonymous, May 13, 2009 4:48 PM

wow! thats like some mystical spanish guitar, arabian night magic with a hint of bluegrass. nice.

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#2 posted by jdixon, May 13, 2009 5:10 PM

Very nice. That drone instrument is also interesting!

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#3 posted by yri, May 13, 2009 5:26 PM

Love the resonator! And the sound is much like a saz. Hm, I guess I'll have to build a cigar-box saz, now...

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#4 posted by Anonymous, May 14, 2009 2:46 AM

Not to spam, and I wouldn't get paid anyway, but both Shane and Tim's musical projects are available at http://www.somedarkholler.com/

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#5 posted by shanespeal, May 14, 2009 4:22 AM

The cigar box guitar was made by Kurt Schoen (www.schoenguitars.com). It has a dobro cone inside the cigar box and it plays like a dream.

The person playing the drone instrument is wyrd folk legend, tiMOTHy Renner (www.somedarkholler.com). He calls the instrument a cigar box tambura. It has 11 drone strings that pass over sitar bridges.

Thanks again for everything, Mark!

-Shane Speal
http://www.cigarboxguitar.com

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#6 posted by ill lich, May 14, 2009 10:57 AM

Why is it a "guitar"?

Three strings: shouldn't it really be considered a domra or something middle eastern like a tanbur?