North Carolina musician Justin Johnson makes and collects homemade instruments. Listen to him play "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" live in the WUNC studios using a guitar made out of a cigar box:
Justin Johnson's latest album, Smoke & Mirrors, is a collection of pre-World War II songs played on a collection of antique homemade instruments from The National Cigar Box Guitar Museum in Alabama. The two-disc compilation was recorded at the iconic Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee and at an old sharecropper's shack in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Listen to his in-studio conversation with The State of Things host Frank Stasio.