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Instruments I can’t play, contd: Cigar Box Guitar - Joe Healy’s Haint
‘The goblin damned was still visible, leaping like a firefly.” - Joe Healy
A little touch of real life Weird West… The Hemingford Herald of 24th April 1896 reports cowboy Joe Healy, driving cattle near Guide Rock, Nebraska, (photo c. 1890s, below) a short distance from the town of Hemingford, encountered a ghost.
He promptly emptied all six rounds from his pistol into it, to no discernible effect. There have been many such sightings since. Not coincidentally, perhaps, is the fact that the rock is sacred to the Pawnee as Pa-hur or Pahur, one of five dwelling places of spirit animals with miraculous powers.
The whole track consists of loops captured live into AUM File Players from my lovely 3-string Cigar Box Guitar, the ‘Plague Doctor’ by Chickenbone John:
https://www.chickenbonejohn.com
then mixed down live via the Audient Evo 4 interface into AudioShare. FX used include Lunar Lander, GE Labs, Beef, FAC Chorus, Alteza and, the only outboard, my Wingie II resonator. The ‘string stab’ is Spectrum Granular applied to the raw guitar sound. No other instruments used.
This is as much guitar as I’ve ever played. My fingertips hurt now.
Comments
Very nice @Svetlovska. That ending was a great way to close the song out.
Is this a new purchase for you?
Hi @Ben : No, I’ve had it since the start of the first lockdown. I tried quite hard to learn proper guitar, using a lovely Ibanez semi, and the Fender course, for the first six months of that, but I keep coming back to the Cigar Box. Three strings and G D G tuning meaning even I can make some bluesy sort-of noises with it. Yes, I like the tape stop effect in Needlepoint. Tempting to use it too much, but it seemed to fit here.
That’s a great piece!. Great soundtrack vibe.
I’ve playing guitar forever but for the past years I’m totally in love with my CGB. Such a different experience. To me it feels like taking the “brain” part out of the chain. It’s so beautifully limited that it goes from instinct to frets.
I’m finishing the mix of a while record where the base is one cgb playing the guitar and bass (bass amp via octaver), it’s like good “blues”. Plus you can’t do boring narcissistic solos, great benefit of 3-string limitations.
Let us know when the album comes out. I’ll be interested to hear that!
I guarantee that I can’t do narcissistic solos, ever
What attracts me is the whole Paris Texas, slide guitar bluesy thing. Like:
Or even:
I mean, this guy even makes a literal shovel sound good, but, hey, you know, maybe one day…
Of course I have to have one of these now. I looked on his website and all of the guitars similar to yours are sold out. The pricier ones are the only ones that are available right now.
I think he does them in batches, so you could probably drop him a line and ask to reserve one from his next batch.
That is a lovely looking CBG @Svetlovska and a very evocative track!
Mine is much more plain but in case anyone is interested, here is a well known tune I played on it!
Puts me in mind of the American south west. Clear skies, red rocks, green desert, rolling hills, cool canyons.
Glad you didn’t expand the box guitar parts too much, as I really don’t think this would have benefited from any kind of solo guitar parts. Nice use of reverb to give it depth in the right places.
Yes this would make a great soundtrack for a movie, very atmospheric, I can see the tumbleweed now !
You’re approaching tunes again!
runs away and hides
Seriously, though, I love the atmosphere here. And I’m developing serious GAS for a Wingie 2: resonators are becoming something of an obsession for me at the moment.