Blues, folk, bluesgrass and now Rinky-Dink. Music of indigent Americans, otherwise known as hillbillies. Screaming slide guitar and strange instruments banging and scraping and whistling all coming together in a cornucopia of genuine home-made music. A drifters soundtrack to life.
I have decided to start building my own set of home-made instruments. Rinky-Dink Instruments (trademark pending).I will be starting with "Stompbox". No, not an electric guitar pedal, a REAL stompbox. A wooden box for stomping your foot on, generating a bass drum effect. Made to emulate the footstompin of hillbillies stomping their feet on the front porch while jamming their myriad of junkyard instruments.
So far I intend on making a few essential junkyard instruments. Namely :
- Stompbox
- Diddley-Bow
- Cigarbox Guitar
- Doodle-Bass
Once I have assembled my Rinky-Dink collection I hope to record a few tracks of pure unadulterated trashbox music. Until then ...Put your shoes on Lucy, don't you know you is in the city?
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