Welcome to CigarBoxGuitar.com, home of Shane Speal

CONCERT UPDATE:

If you've never heard of, seen, or listened to a cigar box guitar, come and meet members of the "Cigar Box Nation!"

Film: "Songs Inside the Box" by Max Shores includes music performed by cigar box guitar artists from across the US. Most of the documentary was shot at the 3rd Annual Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza in Huntsville, Alabama. Screening 7:00 PM on Friday, June 19 at Victory Firehouse, 205 Webster Street (one block north of Hard Bean Cafe)

Show: The "king of the cigar box guitar" Shane Speal of York, PA, performs a kickass show with One-String Willlie and Gerry Thompson - after the screening, at Wildflower Cafe. http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=81276928548&h=_Ze5p&u=PTMZB&ref=mf

Admission prices: Screening: $5 for a single ticket, or included in price of SSFF all-access pass
Show @ Wildflower: $10, or just $5 if you have an SSFF all-access pass
For SSFF advance ticket purchase (buy a pack of tix and save some scratch!) : http://www.southsidefilmfestival.com/festival/tickets
There is another screening of "Songs Inside the Box" on Saturday evening, 6/20, 7:15 PM, also at Victory Firehouse

WAIT THERE'S MORE! Check out the Shane Speal Collection of cigar box guitars along with cigar box guitars built by Brian Tallarico and many other musicians, on display at Tallarico's Chocolate, the home of the immaculate confection AND the official chocolatier of the SSFF! 26 E. Third Street.

Welcome to the official site of Shane Speal, King of the Cigar Box Guitar.

News: Shane to appear live at the SouthSide Film Fest in Bethlehem PA on June 19 in conjunction with the screening of Songs Inside the Box documentary. Details coming soon

THE NEW ALBUM IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!

Insurrection Records proudly announces Shane's new self-titled album. This is the cd that includes his version of Jimi Hendrix's "I Don't Live Today" and the song "Dead Heroes Sell" (which contain lyrics that 'kill off' Songs Inside the Box stars Johnny Lowebow, Max Shores, Kirk Withrow and Ted Crocker). You can Preview two of the new songs in the Audio/Video section of this site.

"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...home." -York Daily Record

SHANE SPEAL LIVE ALBUM "Shane Speal - Stealing Cigarettes," an intimate acoustic cigar box guitar performance featuring his cover of Purple Rain. Buy it at Insurrection Records (www.insurrectionrecords.com)