CIGAR BOX GUITAR VIDEO LESSON: Howlin’ Wolf “Little Red Rooster”

Musician and author, Shane Speal explores the classic Howlin’ Wolf song, “Little Red Rooster.” The song contains a deep blues riff that that has appeared in other great blues songs by Son House, RL Burnside and others. Speal distills the guitar parts down to an accessible riff for 3-string cigar box guitar. Speal is author of Making Poor Man’s Guitars (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2018)

Musician and author, Shane Speal explores the classic Howlin’ Wolf song, “Little Red Rooster.” The song contains a deep blues riff that that has appeared in other great blues songs by Son House, RL Burnside and others.   Speal distills the guitar parts down to an accessible riff for 3-string cigar box guitar.

First we present the original recording for reference.  Scroll down for Speal’s lesson. 

Here is Shane Speal’s full lesson on “Little Red Rooster.”

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