This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...

As soon as cigar manufacturers started packing their product in boxes instead of crates and barrels, people started using the empty boxes for storing other stuff - letters, keys, keepsakes, money, ...

If you like your music homegrown and low-tech, Bradenton’s Village of the Arts is the place to be this weekend. The village is hosting the first Bradenton Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Friday and ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jon Free loves making an unholy noise. As a musician with bands such as Penthouse and the Gin Palace, Free had "an aversion to melody".

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

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 ...