$8.00
The newest cd from the King of the Cigar Box Guitar. Eight new gloriously lo-fi tracks (and 4 bonus tracks) including Speal's remake of Jimi Hendrix's "I Dont Live Today" performed on cigar box guitar and backed by a fife-and-drum band.
Preview three tracks from the album here!
"Speal's music is intentionally strange. The best way to describe it is to take blues and gospel and country and Hawaiian and ragtime and put it through a meat grinder that's missing some teeth - all recorded in the basement of Speal's Shiloh home on a Zoom digital recorder he inherited from a now-deceased friend." -Mike Argento (from the York Daily Record newspaper, 4/24/09)
Songlist & the instruments used...
1. Red Letter
· The Mailbox Dobro
· 2-string slide bass
· antique drums
· (vocals sung thru distortion)
2. Billy Pringle
· 3-string electrified cigar box guitar
· fretless bass
· antique drums
3. Dead Heroes Sell
· 4-string electrified cigar box guitar
· electric guitar played with Ebow
· 2-string slide bass
· First Act kids drum kit
4. God
· The Mailbox Dobro
· 2-string slide bass
· antique drums
5. Tunnel Rat
· 3-string resonator cigar box guitar (played
· claw-hammer style)
· 3-string electrified cigar box guitar (played
· Hindustani slide style)
· 2-string slide bass
· drum programming
6. Drive She Said (Speal)
· Double-neck cigar box guitar
· 2-string slide bass
· antique drums
7. I Don’t Live Today (Jimi Hendrix cover)
· Resonator cigar box guitar
· 2-string slide bass (w/distortion)
· Mississippi fife
· antique drums
(A tribute to Hendrix, who started on a cigar box guitar as a child. Perfomed in the style of Otha Turner’s Mississippi-fife-and-drums.)
8. Hit the Wine (Speal)
· Just an old Stratocaster with some Pops Staples tremolo
Bonus tracks (from the 2001 Shane Speal/ Jug Fusion album)
9. Jesus Make Up My Dyin’ Bed (Trad. Arr.: Speal)
10. X-Ray Spex (Speal)
11. These Frustrating Blues (Speal)
12. Jesus Is Coming Soon (Trad. Arr.: Speal)