Cigar Box Guitar Blues Songs

Baby Please Don’t Go

Cigar box guitar takes on Big Bill Broonzy blues classic

This traditional blues and folk song has been a standard for many years, first popularized by Big Bill Broonzy. Recorded here by Scott Atkinson for My Music Styles on a cigar box guitar made by Shane Speal with a Vox amplifier.

If you want to learn how to play old-time music or learn more old-time songs, check out my songbook: "Essential Bluegrass & Old-Time Songbook." It'll help you learn how to play this great old-time song.

Traditional blues song played on electric cigar box guitar by Scott Atkinson

Take This Hammer

Spike Driver Blues

This song lives in both the blues and old-time/bluegrass worlds. This version combines elements of both of those styles, not going too far into either. I play it many different ways and here I give it a pretty spare, country-blues version on the cigar box guitar. If you want to learn how to play old-time songs, check out my songbook: "Essential Bluegrass & Old-Time Songbook."

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