Glenn Kaiser: Cigarbox Guitar

I'm primarily a blues musician who fell in love with the people, music, places and instruments of the earliest Delta blues singers/players as a young man. Married a beautiful Southern girl 44 years ago :) Between GrrrRecords.Com and YouTube.Com you can find some 37 albums and more that I've been involved with. It's been a long, amazing road! Also a chaplain and pastor, I live and work among poor and  homeless folks in inner-city Chicago -my home since 1973.

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Growing up in rural Wisconsin, USA (northern Midwest), youngest child of a broken home, poverty, several addictions and such all likely contributed to my understanding of the power and longing embeded in the music I love best. Moving to urban Milwaukee, I began singing and taught myself to play guitar and several other instruments at 12 years of age.

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First hearing Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Huddie Ledbetter (aka Leadbelly), Rev. Gary Davis, Son House and many more moved me to a deeper study of not only their lives and living conditions but also the many engines of their music- African music traditions, culture, survival, hand-made instruments, slavery and migration, spirituality... and finally to building cigarbox and found-object guitars.

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I have done countless concerts, blues history/cbg lectures in many workshops teaching and helping peeps build these fun lil' gits. The pleasure of seeing all-age faces light up when they complete a 3, 2 or 1 string primitive slide guitar, then begin finding the notes... this is music to my ears -and no pun intended. Please check out my friends over at cigarboxnation.com and grrrrecords.com for more.  Thanks for stopping by! -Glenn Kaiser                                                  

                                                                                                                            BOOKINGS, ETC.: gkaisersoze@gmail.com  Mobile/Text: 773.383.3528