Books

Here is a concise guide to help you learn the "nuts and bolts" of playing your cigar box guitars: the riffs, solos, turnarounds and other musical components that can be put together to play the blues, rock and roll and much more.  From the...

Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of 53 beloved, well-known songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the numbers above the words in the easy-to-play canjo tablature format. This 60-page song book...

Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of of the thirty best-known and beloved Christmas carols and songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the numbers above the words in the easy-to-play canjo...

Finally - a how-to-play instructional book created just for the 4-string Open G GDGB cigar box guitar! “Cigar Box Guitar – the Ultimate Collection – 4 String” is one the first books ever written specifically for the “4...

Grab your cigar box guitar and get picking, with this treasure trove of tablature arrangements of 41 beloved American songs! This songbook includes 6 pages of "how-to-play" information, making it easier than ever to start playing songs on your 3-string...

Order this book direct from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3G5XvVv   Here is a perfect introductory cigar box guitar building book for the first-time builder! This 140-page professionally-printed book will walk you through all of the steps to build...

Ben Gitty writes: Get into the festive Christmas spirit with this beautiful collection of timeless Christmas hymns and songs. This 130-page spiral-bound songbook contains 31 of the best-known and beloved Christmas carols and songs, all arranged...

Grab your cigar box guitar and get picking, with this treasure trove of 70 different tablature arrangements of 31 beloved, well-known songs! This songbook includes 5 pages of "how-to-play" information, making it easier than ever to start playing songs...

Grab your canjo and get picking (again!), with this treasure trove of 53 MORE beloved, well-known songs! This is our SECOND volume of traditional songs arranged for playing on the one-string canjo. Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed,...

A collection of 30 beloved, easy-to-play classic songs arranged in tablature for 4-string Open GDGB cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Each song includes multiple tablature arrangements in different styles and keys, chords &...

This is the long-awaited album from the Shane Speal Snake Oil Band, available now for pre-order! CDs to begin shipping on July 2. This album gives you a full hour of hard-driving blues in a unique modern jug-band style that Shane has built up from the...

This book contains all of the canjo-building how-to info that Ben "Gitty" Baker has gleaned over almost a decade of building these fun, easy-to-play instruments. Canjos are one of the easiest homemade instruments to build, and now you have all of the...