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The "Suitcase Sessions" Podcast is where you will discover and explore the world of Cigar Box Guitars. This is where you will learn new things from the history of the cigar box and its use to the authors who’ve written about it. We’ll travel the 4 corners of the earth to talk to builders and players, influencers, and innovators, we’ll stop along the way to enjoy some music and together we’ll draw closer as a community and be more informed as we spread the word!
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In this episode I was able to sit down with Anthony Walker of Southpaw Cigarbox Guitars. Anthony lives in Blythewood, South Carolina and has a long history in Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement. He is a prolific builder of high quality, hand crafted Cigar Box Guitars and aside from being a regular vendor at the Soda City Market in Columbia, S…
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In this episode, I am deviating from the norm to have a little bit of fun with my son Dan and his wife Haley. They traveled about 9 hours from their home in Florida to spend some time in Gadsden, Alabama seeing the Cigar Box Guitar exhibit at the Mary G. Hardin Center For Cultural Arts Museum - and to spend some time catching up with me! We decided…
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In this edition, I had the privelage of interviewing Tom Banks, Executive Director of the Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation, and the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts. Tom is excited to host a permanent display of Cigar Box Guitars in Gadsden, Alabama and ensured that some 60 Cigar Box Guitars had a promonent location on the wall adjacent to t…
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In this episode, I sit down with Roberto Vasquez. If you're paying attention, you'll note the 3-string, paint can lid resonator leaning against the suitcase at a crossroad in my podcast logo. Roberto made that cigar box guitar for me about 7 years ago as a part of a Christmas exchange among a group of builders, and it has been my favorite to noodle…
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In this episode, I had a chance to sit down with Mark "The Harp" LeClair. Mark is a Cigar Box Guitar builder and performer. He is known for playing his cigar box guitars with his harmonicas and has an ability to tell stories with musical accompaniment on the fly. Here, you will learn how Boys Life Magazine and his natural curiousity led him to buil…
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In this interview I had an opportunity to sit down with Logan Elliott. Logan is from the Springfield, IL area and is a prolific builder of Cigar Box Guitars. He specializes in Fretless CBGs and operates under the name of Logan's Home Grown CBGs. Logan has appeared on several Radio and TV spots both locally and nationally and has been featured in nu…
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SSE9 Bill and Alice Saurber - Pallin With Al
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In this interview, I sit down with Alice and Bill Saurber; the husband and wife musical duo "Pallin With Al". Alice plays a Tenor Ukulele and Bill plays a Ukulele Bass (UBass) and together they are very talented performing artists who hail from the Greater Cincinnati area. We had a chance to sit down in Gadsden, Alabama where they performed on-stag…
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Interview with Jesse Thomas of Hummingbird Guitars while in Gadsden, Alabama at the Grand Opening of the Cigar Box Guitar Exhibit at the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts and simultaneous event sponsored by MGB Guitars - "BoxCon". BoxCon was a builders convention and I had an opportunity to interview Jesse to get to know him as a builder. You…
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Interview with Travis Bowlin in Gadsden, Alabama for the Suitcase Sessions Podcast. Travis Bowlin is a highly talented recording artist and Cigar Box Guitar builder. In this episode, we talk about his passion for music and get to hear a new song of his played on a cigar box guitar that he had just finished building. We also get insight into who his…
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In this episode of the Suitcase Sessions podcast I had an opportunity to sit down with Cody Goggin. Cody is the lead singer and guitarist for Cody and the Chameleons. He is a true performing artist and he shares with us his passion for all aspects of the artform from writing his own lyrics to producing his own albums and documentaries. Here we get …
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SSE5 Russ Wellington - Builder and Musician
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In this episode we sit down with a member of the St. Louis Cigar Box Guitar Club who is both a builder and musician to discuss his motivations and influences as well as listen to him talk about and play a few of his Cigar Box Guitars. Russ performs with both the Unspecific Railroad band and with Cody and the Chameleons when not performing on his ow…
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In this episode I hope to convince you that making Cigar Box Guitars is pretty simple and you can really use your imagination to build one. Here I give plenty of examples for using things you might not expect to act as a bridge, a nut, a sound hole or tuning pegs. I talk about each aspect of a standard guitar and what that might look like on your C…
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In this episode, I answer the question I'm asked most often by my peers: How did you get addicted to Cigar Box Guitars? My story is unique, like everyone else's but it is fun to learn how anybody discovers the Cigar Box Guitar and find out what it does to us as either builders or musicians. Watch the epidsodes on my YouTube channel at: https://www.…
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A conversation with Mike Breedlove, Owner and Operator of MGB Guitar Parts and Supplies. In this episode we get to learn what motivates Mike and pick his brain on a wide variety of topics from his love of wood to his passion for the Cigar Box Guitar and spreading the word while helping introduce the artform to as many people as he can. Mike can be …
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SSE0 Suitcase Sessions Trailer - Exploring The World of Cigar Box Guitars
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Welcome to the “Suitcase Sessions” Podcast! My name is Bob Bowman and I love Cigar Box Guitars! From the moment I heard Justin Johnson play a 3-string electric shovel and learned he made and played Cigar Box Guitars, I was hooked. That was 7 years ago, and since then I’ve been a member of the St. Louis Cigar Box Guitar Club and have built 100 cigar…
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In this episode we learn about the origins of the cigar box and how it came to be the primary transportation container for cigars. We learn how many were estimated to be in circulation in the United States between 1800 and 1960 and who was 1st to package their cigars in wooden boxes and the earliest known use of the cigar box as an instrument we wo…
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The Conspiracy Theory: Who Really Killed Hae Lee?
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Adnan was convicted of Hae Lee’s murder but we came up with a conspiracy theory about what we think happened
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