Happy Birthday, everyone!!! The forum is One Year Old!!!!

In one year, we have:

1. 362 Members
2. 2 International Festivals
3. Several new CBG Companies
4. A handful of CBG albums released
5. More press than you can shake a broomstick at
6. A close knit group of friends who love to help each other out
7. A slew of CBG related websites
8. Worldwide sharing of many different CBG Plans
9. The very first publishing of the History of the CBG
10. The opening of the National Cigar Box Guitar Museum
11. The beginning of the revitalization of a small West Virginia town
12. The support of a major musical instrument supply catalog.
13. The interest of an international cigar company.
14. More fun making and playing music than we've ever had in our lives before.

Free FESTIVAL OF THE RIVERS Screensaver (PC only)
Watch the guys from this years 'Festival of the Rivers' on your desktop.
Special thanks to Rhythm Board Ray, and everyone else who sent in there photos.
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Shane Speal - Unrealeased Demo's

FREE SHANE SPEAL CIGAR BOX GUITAR CD!!! "Let Them Eat Beans"

This is a present to everyone in the Cigar Box Guitar Forum. Happy Birthday. You guys have become my close friends and continually make me proud.

This album is a sloppy mess of demos and unreleased tracks. I used my Macanudo cigar box guitar, 1 string cigar box diddley bow, electric cbg and even the Matty Baratto CigFiddle. Download it and crank it up!

Thanks again, everyone. The first year was a blast. The second year will be a NEUTRON BOMB!!!

sincerely,
shane

ps. If you haven't been to the Cigar Box Guitar Forum, go check it out at http://groups.yahoo.com/cigarboxguitars This is the coolest music forum on the net.

Let Them Eat Beans - Tracks (mp3 format)

1. "Cigar Box Guitar Rag" (aka Guitar Rag) Me again on the Macanudo

2. And now for a bizarre one! Shane Speal, covering the tune "Beans" by Beans Hambone/El Morrow. This is the first song ever recorded to feature a cigar box guitar. I'm playing the Macanudo along with my 1-string cbg

3. Unreleased Shane Speal demo "Polly Wolly Doodle" Played on Matty Baratto CigFiddle

4. It's a demo I made playing Blind Willie Johnson's "God Don't Never Change" on my Macanudo.

5. Here's another unreleased demo. I'm playing the Macanudo again. Song: Blind Willie Johnson's "I Just Can't Keep From Crying"

6. Shane Speal demo "Brennen's Lullaby" Played on Matty Baratto CigFiddle and 1-string cbg

7. Dead heros sell

8. Drink with me

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