Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

Blues-rock group Shane Speal's Snake Oil Band will perform on October 31 at Gullifty's Underground. The group performs on a collection of jug band instruments, including cigar box guitars, a washtub ...

It's Music Monday on Fox43 Morning News. This Monday's guest is known as the master of the cigar box guitar. We're talking to Shane Speal and washboard player, Ronn Benway, from the group Shane ...

BARRINGTON — C.B. Gitty Crafter Supply of Rochester is presenting two special concert performances by Shane Speal, the “King of the Cigar Box Guitar.” One is on Friday, Feb. 28, from 8 to 10 p.m. at ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

York resident Shane Speal has been making and playing cigar box guitars for more than two decades. "I was searching for something that was the most primal guitar sound out there. I stumbled upon the ...

Shane Speal’s Snake Oil Band isn’t just a musical group - it’s an adventure. Performing Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Tellus360, 24 E. King St., Shane Speal’s Snake Oil Band creates a theatrical experience in ...

They’re a one-of-a-kind high octane electric jug band who you can hear this Saturday at the Suquehanna Folk Festival at Roundtop Mountain Resort. With a preview of what’s to come at the festival, ...

Shane Speal walked into the living room of the double-wide outside of New Oxford where the man known as Junior Ben rents a room, and he opened the battered gig bag, extracting an old homemade guitar. ...

Musician Speal shares his decades of experience in building, playing, and customizing classic DIY instruments in this delightful guide. It was hearing Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” that caused him to ...