If, as Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “A woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke,” then what does that make the box the cigar came in? In the hands of craftsman and entrepreneur Steven ...

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 ...

Pary Flynn's cigar box guitar made from an old sycamore tree that was on the Faucek/McKee Farm in Edwardsville. The farm is currently being developed into commercial businesses across from the ...

He works with the precision and concentration of a surgeon because, well, he is one. But in the basement workshop of Kirk Withrow’s Birmingham home, the stakes are much lower. The ear, nose and throat ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SACO — Max Jones creates cigar box guitars, and has a personal connection to ...

LITTLE ROCK — In a small and unassuming house in North Little Rock, a quiet and unassuming computer repairman looks at a stack of used wooden cigar boxes, rectangular and colorful. What he sees is ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Every day the Ozark Folk Center is open, there's a living history demonstration in front of the old schoolhouse. Don't miss it, particularly if the show features Gus Pike. Gus Pike is an ...

You never know when inspiration will hit you. For Steve Armstrong, his moment arrived one evening last year while watching television. On the screen, a blues musician known as Seasick Steve set down ...

Ever wondered what you can do with an old box, a piece of wood and a few strings? Music-loving Michael Marshall did and is helping to revive an old tradition of the cigar box guitar. He’s converted ...