Books

This is the long-awaited album from the Shane Speal Snake Oil Band, available now for pre-order! CDs to begin shipping on July 2. This album gives you a full hour of hard-driving blues in a unique modern jug-band style that Shane has built up from the...

Grab your cigar box guitar and get picking, with this treasure trove of 70 different tablature arrangements of 31 beloved, well-known songs! This songbook includes 5 pages of "how-to-play" information, making it easier than ever to start playing songs...

This book will teach you basic playing techniques for the ukulele. No prior musical experience is assumed. You will learn how to hold the instrument, position the hands, strumming techniques, basic chords and beyond. The enclosed CD guides you...

Ben Gitty writes: I grew up in small pentecostal churches, where my grandma Myra helped lead the singing. The great old hymns and spirituals I learned during those years have stayed with him all my life, and I am proud to now be able to present them in...

Ben Gitty writes: As you probably know, the Irish have a bit of a reputation for enjoying their drink... and for writing songs to celebrate it. This songbook contains my favorite traditional Irish drinking songs: songs specifically about booze and...

In this 159-page book, Ben "Gitty" Baker teaches his methods for installing frets on cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Over the past 10 years thousands of necks, fretboards and instruments have been fretted in the C. B. Gitty workshop,...

A collection of 38 beloved, easy-to-play sea shanties and other seafaring songs from Ireland, Scotland, England, America and beyond, arranged in tablature for 3-string Open GDG cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Each song...

The 65 songs in this 215-page songbook form Volume Two of a collection of some of the best traditional tunes from the mountains, farms and woods of America - Old-Time and Bluegrass favorites that have been a mainstay of down-home American music for...

Ben Gitty writes: Irish music, and the people who play and sing it, have become a very special part of my life since I settled in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire. This book contains my favorite songs, all of them ones you would be very likely to...

Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of of the thirty best-known and beloved Christmas carols and songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the numbers above the words in the easy-to-play canjo...

This is the "master volume" of our Cigar Box Guitar Hymnal series: 113 hymns, spirituals and carols, 316 pages in total. These books are professionally printed with standard glue binding. These beloved old hymns are all arranged specifically...

Ben Gitty writes: I grew up in small Pentecostal churches, where my grandma Myra helped lead the singing. The great old hymns and spirituals I learned during those years have stayed with me all my life, and I am proud to now be able to present them in...