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JAMES "SUPER CHIKAN"JOHNSON
This famed Δ blues musician crafts guitars from cigar boxes
By Terri Peterson Smith
Growing up ∈ the Mississippi Δ of the 1950s, James “Super Chikan” Johnson learned to play from the blues greats who gathered to jam on his grandfather´s porch. “Everyone played,” he says, “but I couldn´t afford to buy instruments.” So he crafted them from materials at hand: oil cans, suitcases and especially cigar boxes. Gradually, this beloved bluesman has gained recognition for the visual artistry of the guitars he creates, as well as his music. “I´m a double artist,” he says, laughing. Part folk art, part musical instrument, his cigar box guitars are ∈ the collections of fans such as Paul Simon, Caroline Kennedy and Morgan Freeman. Working from his home ∈Clarksdale, Mississippi, Johnson acquires vintage wooden cigar boxes from friends or at collectors shows. He adds a neck, strings and a pickup for amplification, then paints and bejewels them. The result: slide guitars with a haunting electronic pickup blues-style twang that he plays ∈ concerts around the world. “I enjoy it when people gather around after shows to ask about them,” he says, adding that each distinctive instrument “offers all the colors ∈ my heart.”
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
Spots ∈Delaware, Louisiana and New Mexico pay homage to the simple cigar box
The Winterthur Museum ∈Delaware has an extensive collection of the gorgeous lithographic art that has topped cigar boxes.
Each January, the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival celebrates the music of the home-made stringed instruments.
This frame is one of the impressive pieces of tramp art made from cigar boxes at the Museum of International Folk Art ∈Santa Fe.
Adaptado de: SMITH, Terri Peterson. James “Super Chikan” Johnson. ΔSky, June 2019, p.32. view.imirus.com
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