After spending the last year unveiling a warm and enticing array of lo-fi offerings, emerging artist Soapbox Sound has now returned to deliver his next impressive single 'Hooked On You'.
Lifted from his forthcoming new album 'Homestead', which is set to be released soon, 'Hooked On You' sees him return in stellar form. Filled with a sweet and sweeping texture, soaring tones, and his wistful vocals layered throughout, he is definitely one to keep an eye on for the future.
So with the new single out now, we sat down with him to find out more about his background and influences over the last few years.
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I taught myself guitar at the end of high school, but before perfecting it I quickly just moved into writing songs and practiced that more than anything so my progress took longer than I would have hoped. Now I have fallen in love with classical music over the last few years and wish I had learned piano at a younger age as well.
Growing up my grandmother introduced me to the oldies, so in 8th grade I was the only kid I knew heavily listening to music from the 50’s and 60’s. Naturally, I progressed into being a complete Beatles fanatic and haven’t strayed too far from that style of music since. Even the contemporary music I listen to harkens back to the framework they laid out. Bob Dylan too, can’t forget to mention him. He came a little later for me but undoubtedly had a massive influence on my writing and performing.
I don’t remember the first CD I ever had, perhaps it was The Beatles “1” album given to me by a friend. However, the first vinyl record I bought with my own money was definitely “Meet the Beatles”. Dr. Dog’s album Easy Beat came shortly after that.
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Tough, tough question. I Want You (She’s So Heavy). The simplicity yet effectiveness of the lyrics and music is astounding. There’s only 14 different words in the whole thing - and I’m a big lyrics guy - but they’re the only words you need. It tells you all you need to know, along with being passionately delivered by John Lennon’s vocals and backed by the most perfect guitar music that continues to build up into a hypnotic wall of sound and penetrates your soul. It’s one of the greatest songs ever recorded and only The Beatles could have pulled off the simple/effectiveness ratio as they always managed to do. At least I think so.
I almost always write the lyrics first. The words have to check out, make sense, be somewhat interesting, and get across what I’m trying to say before getting into the music. By which point, the music has an easier time fitting around the words and the melody has a foundation to build off of.
I discovered Dr. Dog around 2011, they’ve since been my favorite contemporary band and have seen them perform dozens of times. Dawes, The Front Bottoms, Pinegrove and The Districts have also been big with me since Soapbox Sound formed. Most recently I discovered ELO and couldn’t believe I was so late to the party but better late than never!
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Dr. Dog is going on their last tour in a month but that would be a dream. I’ve seen them perform over fifty times and dreamt about being up there to open every time!
I’ve heard from a few people that some of my songs have touched them deeply during a time when they needed it. That always has meant the world because I know what it’s like to be on the other end of that. The fact that anyone - nevermind multiple people - have felt a connection to some of my songs is the most incredible thing to me and is one of the biggest reasons I started writing music in the first place.
A lot of times things feel a little helpless and like you’re singing into an empty void with no way of really knowing if anything is even going to pan out or come to fruition. That’s very frustrating - the not knowing. But in those moments I just have to remind myself it’s not always about the destination but rather the journey. It’s cliche and doesn’t always help but it’s in fact true, as nothing at all is promised to us and we just have to make do with what we have in the moment and hope that effort and energy pays off one day.
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The best advice I’ve learned as a musician wasn’t about music itself but about the business of being an independent artist. There’s so much that goes into the promotional aspect of being a self-sustaining artist that I didn’t fully appreciate or take part in until very recently. If I had listened and taken that advice more seriously when it was first given to me, I would be more experienced with that stuff at this point than I currently am.
Soapbox Sound's new single 'Hooked On You' is available to stream now. Check out the new video for it in the player below.The cigar box guitar is a simple chordophone that uses an empty cigar box as a resonator. The earliest had one or two strings; modern models typically have three or more. Gerally, the strings are connected to the d of a broomstick or a 1×2 inch wood slat and to the cigar box resonator.
Cigars were packed in boxes, crates, and barrels as early as 1800, but the small boxes that are common today did not exist prior to around 1840.
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Until th, cigars were shipped in crates containing 100 or more per case. After 1840, cigar manufacturers started using smaller, more portable boxes with 20–50 cigars per box.
The earliest known illustration of a cigar box instrumt is an etching copyrighted in 1876 of two American Civil War soldiers at a campsite, one of whom is playing a cigar box fiddle. The etching was created by illustrator and artist Edwin Forbes, who, under the banner of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, worked for the Union Army. The etching was included in Forbes's work Life Studies of the Great Army.
In addition to the etching, plans for a cigar box banjo were published by Daniel Carter Beard, co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America, in 1884 as part of Christmas Eve with Uncle os.
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The plans, retitled How to Build an Uncle os Banjo, were included in the 1890 edition of Beard's American Boy's Handy Book as supplemtary material at the back of the book.
These plans omitted the story but still showed a step-by-step description of a playable five-string fretless banjo made from a cigar box.
It would seem that the earliest cigar box instrumts would be crude and primitive, but this is not always the case. According to William Jehle, curator of The Cigar Box Guitar Museum and the author of One Man's Trash: A History of the Cigar Box Guitar,
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The museum acquired two cigar box fiddles built in 1886 and 1889 that seem very playable and well built. The 1886 fiddle was made for an 8-year-old boy and is certainly playable, but the 1889 fiddle has a well-carved neck and slotted violin headstock. The latter instrumt was made for serious playing.
Cigar box guitars and fiddles were also important in the rise of jug bands and blues. As most of these performers were black Americans living in poverty, many could not afford a real instrumt. Using these, along with the washtub bass (similar to the cigar box guitar), jug, washboard, and harmonica, black musicians performed blues at social evts.
A modern revival of these instrumts has be gathering momtum with an increase in the number of cigar box guitar builders and performers. A loose-knit group of underground musicians tour the East Coast of the United States each summer under the banner Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar Tour.
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. These musicians include Doctor Oakroot, Johnny Lowebow, Tomi-O and many others. A growing number of primitive luthiers are adding cigar box guitars to their items for sale. Some cigar box guitar builders of today include Mike Doyle Shane Speal, Mike Snowd, Del Puckett and Peter Lake of Heavy Fog Guitars.
The modern revival is partly due to interest in the DIY culture, as a cigar box is inexpsive in comparison with other factors, such as strings and construction time. Many modern cigar box guitar makers can be se as practitioners of a type of lutherie and implemt various personal touches, such as the addition of pickups and resonator cones. In the mid-to-late 1990’s, Jay Kirgis, a musician and sculptor in Oxford, Mississippi, created playable, sculptural cigarbox and biscuit tin instrumts using pool cues as necks.
The modern revival of cigar box guitars is documted in the 2008 film Songs Inside the Box, which was shot primarily at the Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza, an annual evt held in Huntsville, Alabama,
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While there are many cigar box guitar builders, selling their guitars online, at music festivals and outdoor markets, Huntsville, Alabama is also home to the only brick-and-mortar cigar box
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