COMPLETE Old-Time and Bluegrass Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook

Cigar Box Guitarist Shaq Collins writes:

In each book Ben will first give you an introduction not only to the book but the history of the songs within. It sets a scene of the world at the time of these songs. You get an idea of why the songs were written to begin with. Ben then goes on to give a lesson on how to read these songs. Some people may know very well how to read chords and tablature but somewhere out there these books may be someone's very first song book so I find it a very nice touch. Another thing I do like, which I have seen other books be guilty of in the past, is the larger type size. Ben has ensured that these books be very easy to read and follow. One thing I will say is a huge plus in each of his books is the page layout. Although there are chord charts in the beginning of each book, each song will have not just the chords displayed that you will need to play them but diagrams of how to play them so there is no need to flip back and forth to make sure you're fingers are where they’re supposed to be. If you’re umming and ahing about getting one of Ben's books, you’d be wise to do so because there are few better feelings than learning how to play a song you love then absolutely nailing it.

Includes these songs and many more:

• All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
• Angeline the Baker
• Arkansas Traveler
• The Ballad of Casey Jones
• Bile Them Cabbage Down
• Black-Eyed Susie
• Blue-Tail Fly
• Bound To Ride
• Buffalo Gals
• Bury Me Beneath the Willow
• Camptown Races
• Church in the Wildwood
• Cluck Old Hen
• Cotton-Eyed Joe
• Cripple Creek
• Crying Holy
• Deep Elem Blues
• Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
• East Virginia Blues
• Foggy Mountain Top
• Footprints In the Snow
• Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
• The Great Speckled Bird
• Green Pastures
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
• Handsome Molly
• Hills of Roane County
• Home On the Range
• Honey In the Rock
• I Know You Rider
• I’m Working On A Building
• In the Pines
• Jesse James
• John Hardy
• John Henry
• Keep On the Sunny Side
• Let Me Rest At the End of My Journey
• Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
• Long Journey Home
• Mama Don't Allow
• Man of Constant Sorrow
• Maple on the Hill, The
• Milwaukee Blues
• Molly and Tenbrooks
• My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
• My Old Kentucky Home
• New River Train
• Nine Hundred Miles
• Nine Pound Hammer
• Nobody's Business
• Oh Death
• Oh Susannah
• Old Dan Tucker
• Old Joe Clark
• Old Paint
• Old Time Religion
• Paul and Silas
• Pig in a Pen
• Railroad Bill
• Rain and Snow
• Red River Valley
• Reuben's Train
• Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
• Roll On Buddy
• Roving Gambler
• Sally Goodin
• Salty Dog Blues
• Shady Grove
• Shenandoah
• Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me
• Silver Threads Among the Gold
• Sitting On Top of the World
• Somebody Touched Me
• Standing in the Need of Prayer
• Take This Hammer
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One
• This Train (Is Bound For Glory)
• Tom Dooley
• Train That Carried My Girl From Town, The
• Turkey In The Straw
• Unclouded Day, The
• Wabash Cannonball, The
• Walking In My Sleep
• Wayfaring Stranger
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• When I Lay My Burden Down (Glory Glory, Hallelujah)
• When You and I Were Young, Maggie
• Where the Soul Never Dies
• Whitehouse Blues
• Wildwood Flower
• Worried Man Blues
• Wreck of the Old '97

And many more!