For three years, Archie Storey had been on a steady diet of Mississippi blues and was looking for a way into the music. The longtime BeBop Records employee listened to the blues constantly and ...

There isn’t much about the small house on an average street in a typical Royal Oak neighborhood that would make people think anything out of the ordinary is happening inside. But the cigar box guitars ...

It was an offer they couldn't refuse. Savannah's best blues guitarists were offered a free cigar box guitar in exchange for donating their talents to a free concert that will be presented Aug. 6 at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

The Samantha Fish Cigar Box Guitar Festival is going virtual this weekend, even as its namesake has gone back on the road. Samantha Fish, the popular New Orleans-based blues ‘n’ boogie guitarist and ...

With her latest studio release, Paper Doll, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road and goes in ...

Blues guitarist Samantha Fish will be the namesake artist at the Cigar Box Guitar Festival in 2020, creating a what producer Collins Kirby calls “a marriage made in roots music heaven.” Fish, of ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - It started as a search for a different sound. Kevin M. Kraft spent years unsatisfied with the instruments he had and was considering commissioning a custom-made guitar when he ...

EL SOBRANTE, Calif. (KGO) -- One man's trash is another man's treasure and this rings true for an East Bay man who is bringing life back into old items. Steve Zwetsch is pairing unlikely items ...

Correspondent photos / Amanda Davis Al Frano of Boardman makes and sells his cigar box guitars throughout the world. BOARDMAN — By the time Al Frano was 5 years old, he knew he liked working with his ...

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Just out of high school in Kansas City, Missouri, aspiring guitarist Samantha Fish attended the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. In an area called the Midway, she saw solo musicians ...