Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life [With CD (Audio)]

by Paul Quarrington

Book Overview

In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it's made along the way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553654382
• ISBN13: 9781553654384
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"