Ghost Of A Guitar - Burtsbluesboxes

The picture it went with is no longer available, but that's a great description of both the music and image. It was a ghostly guitar image in a garden, best I can describe it.

Thanks :D Bit of fun improv on my fretless 3 string guitar that was paired with an image.

It was done for an abstract ghostly pic of a guy in a garden holding an acoustic guitar, I love how haunting it came out. I got lost in it just playing! These cbgs can tell a tale drawing you in all on their own. Thanks srob :p

Both scenarios sound exciting ;) I guess this could fit under blues, country or even folk. I like the hill blues which combines all three. I find cbgs to be quite hypnotyzing to listen to people playing, LOVE em! Thanks TA

Doom blues ;) The bendiness comes from playing with a slide on the fretless guitar. Thanks Trippy Hippy!

I played the guitar through Guitar rig 5, I think it was atmospheric guitar setting. The project is on my desktop, I'll have to look what I did, but I think I left everything pretty raw.

Cigar box guitar with a handmade maple neck, oak fretboard, tuners salvaged from an old Yamaha acoustic, a humbucker pickup from an Ibanez guitar with Earnie Balls strings, played using a glass slide. The nut is a piece of threaded rod, some bolt I found and cut to length, string trees are just screws, the bridge is a piece of brass rod from a sink drain stopper with a spoon for a string anchor/tail piece. This is my favorite one and first built using a magnetic pickup. Been using piezo pickups in them all but this one. I believe the drums are addictive drums.

very ##### guitar :p 3 string fretless homemade electric cigar box guitar. I like the pic it's paired with, so trippy, the longer you look at it the more pops out at you. Thanks Lank :D

YAAAYY!!Doom blues \m/ I love how haunting the delta slide blues can be, so full of soul and emotion. Thanks Neo B-D I'm going to make some more halloween tunes, wouldn't be right without a zombie and witch one! Both almost complete.

Thanks Taanz :D I don't monetize my music, just happy to share it and make others happy with it. It's free to use and abuse any way you see fit, just more places for others to enjoy or hate it as well :p
Cool video, bit dizzy now *grabs barf bag* LOL!!

No need to kill! Happy Halloween :D http://www.mediafire.com/file/wbp5tvc664qhwyj/Ghost+Guitar.zip Dry and wet version of just the guitar. Wait, you didn't even say trick or treat!

Thanks Orlando, they all have such a unique sound. Amazing such simple instruments can sound so good and you play these fretless with only one finger (with a slide). I have one made from an Altoids breath mints tin I need to record, but it's difficult to play being so tiny hahaha I was watching some you tube videos of people playing cigar box guitars in similar style, no drums or bass backing, just love the atmosphere they can create! This one just seemed too lonely and needed a bit of company. I have a 3 string fretted one to string up and try, maybe I'll have time this weekend to do that.

Nothing makes me happier than sharing these :D I've given a number of these guitars away and you should see people's smile when they get one! The sound is amazing from each one. This one is my first only electric, got a pick up out of my Ibanez Gio which got an upgrade. I use a contact mic in the others so they're acoustic/electric. Thanks PapaNelson :D

With my artist name it was a perfect fit hahaha!! I'll post a picture tomorrow of them. They say the devil is the great deciever so what better form than a cute little ##### cat (^._.^)/ I love the meme Cat of Northern Darkness and Abbath, we've found the one fortold of!
I picked up some extra fuel this year, that sucked last year when it ran out halfway through that fat guy and we had to finish by hand!

Doom blues, what a perfect pair up being my two favorite genres :p Oh for sure more on the way. These guitars are addicting not only to build but to play!

I learned about cigar box guitars about a year ago, HAD to have one!! I'm a handyman by trade so building one was the only acceptable option. They're literally a stick stuck through a box, and as intricate or as simple as you choose to make them. The sounds out of them though :O All my regular guitars and basses have Grumpy cat (the great lord and master) on them, except my 5 string has just paw prints. That's my only cbg with grumpy, the rest typically have really cool artwork so I leave them that way. I saw that pic needing music and immediately said I'll compose for this! Improv playing, like most of my guitar playing. Thanks Wobbin the evil chef, I'll have a very nice supply of trick or treaters for you this year so sharpen up that chainsaw 3:D>

Thanks Kingbeatz, so much soul comes out of such simple instruments!!

It's the Looperman Cafe at Halloween ;)

18 cigar box guitars (well, cookie and various tins too) here right now, that's not including the ones I've given away and 2 in a local flea market for sale :D Thanks Silverman, this one is my fav's, such incredible sound out of it! I guess we'll just have to venture into the darkness to see what lies beyond, what's the worst that could happen? I do have quite the collection of dark tracks as well with more on the way for halloween. Coming across some older incomplete ones I'm trying to finish up, if they're worth finishing.

*Brings out the wjiskey and cigars* :p Bit too hot in the south for me, northerner myself, but I absolutely love the soulful sounds of the south!! Thanks Sonny :D

Incredible the sounds I can get out of these home made guitars!! Bet you never heard a 2 string cookie tin guitar sound like this http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/175212 3:D> My paperbox 3 string cbg sounds like a dobro.

This one is an electric, I used a pick up out of my Ibanez Gio, it got a new one, but on most I use a piezo pick up (contact mic) so they're wired just like a regular electric guitar. I've made a few acoustics but prefer adding the electonics for the option of recording without a mic. You'll get sound acoustically, the bigger the box the louder it will be. I play through an audio interface into my computer to record. The fx used here are Guitar rig 5 - blues git 74 and soundtoys - Crystaline. I see alot of stuff they make in africa out of soda bottles, soup cans and stuff :p Amazing the instruments that can be made out of junk! One man's trash is another's treasure. Saw an instrument that was nails stuck into a branch and the guy would hit them with like drum sticks, each had a different tone. I sent 8 american license plates to a guy in pretoria south africa a few months ago, he was going to make them into license plate guitars, made a few of those myself, also cookie tins and many other assorted tins/boxes. They're addicting as hell and so much fun to play! This is a great video on ho to make one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzvfyOizV8 same guy does one finger lessons to teach people to play them too.

Everyone of them has a unique sound, this one is one of my fav's http://imgur.com/gallery/QZBjOoT That's just a few. I made 2 out of Altoids breath mint tins they're so tiny hahaha I have a coors beer minikeg I was challenged to make one with, maybe I'll have some time this weekend to do that one. I'll try and get more pics up and leave a link on my pg or if you find me on FB I have a bunch of pics there. Made a few with cookie tins, werthers original tins, got another 3 stringer fretted this time just waiting on a nut and strings. So much soul in such simple instruments B-) I have a bread loaf pan with a fat dowel for a neck, one stringer. I think that's going to a guy that comes in to the dump every saturday, he's been asking me for one. I'm even considering a contest on here where the prize is a cbg, I build them for next to nothing, only thing shipping may be expensive outside the US. Thanks Ed

Love this stuff!! I could never play the delta blues very well on my 6 strings, take a few away and... ;) I'll check out some of Clutch's bluseier stuff, I've heard some of their metal. There's alot of this style on you tube, mostly just the guitar solo. I tried that and it felt like it was missing something.

Thanks Jamid, just doing what I love. There's no greater reward than knowing others enjoy it as well.

You like that guitar ha? ;) Same one I played on Time for work blues, the black one in the center http://imgur.com/gallery/QZBjOoT Doom-Blues, perfect! Two of my favorite genres!! I need to make some cigar box guitar black metal now. Thanks Cru :D

I absolutely love the tone of that guitar. Its a maple neck, oak fretboard (fretless) a wooden cigar box with neck through body and a humbucker pick up from my Ibanez Gio, which got a new V* Ibanez pickup, Earnie Ball 9 gauge strings played with a medium wall glass slide. Everyone of them has a unique sound but this is my fav! I find this style very soothing. I love how the guitar alone can tell a tale. I was just going to have the guitar alone like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn3WbidU8I but really liked how the drums and bass glued it all together, I play to a drum groove to keep time. Thanks Nelson

You're Hunglish is getting quite good Danke :p It is very beautiful, hauntingly beautiful, I find this style soothing. Handshake, so when are you getting yourself a cigar box guitar? I'd love to hear you playing one!

Thank You :D

So much emotion in music from south, being so rich in history. I love the ghostly, melancholic tone of the lone cigar box guitar playing. That's where these cigar box guitars originated, there and with the mountain people, people too poor to afford instruments so they made them. LOL! 'master' *blushes* Funny, before I came home and recorded this I was listening to some very fast paced black metal, there's only a few bands in that genre I really like 3:D> This song in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn3WbidU8I fkn LOVE this stuff!! Just play/compose what your soul tells you, concious thought fks it all up, if I think I fk up. Fast, slow whatever comes out,let the music tell you where it wants to go. If you brain says play fast, just go with it :p Sometimes I play fast but seems the slower darker stuff really gets me going! My Dying Bide (older stuff) always gets me inspired. All improv, bass was done in one take. I hit record and played along. Guitar took 3 takes cuz I kept hitting some wrong notes when I slid way up and I hate editing!! I need to do some more Lovecraft themed stuff, I smell a collab ;) I have the rats in the walls on my player. The doom that came to Saranath is another good one or the music of Erik Zahn. Bowed cigar box guitar would make a great violin substitute. I wonder what bowed banjo would sound like, have to try it. Slide banjo is neat but I keep hitting the frets because of the low action.