Time to get your jug band on.  Saint Blues Guitar Workshop announced today the launch of the Woogie Board, the first production electric washboard in partnership with Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars.   Cody is the son of legendary producer, Jim Dickinson, who worked with artists such as the Rolling Stones, the Replacements, and Bob Dylan.  Although it was his father’s love of roots, blues, and folk music that introduced Cody to the washboard, electrifying it and marrying with traditional guitar effects, was all Cody.

It is handmade in Memphis from solid Mahogany, and finished with a hand-rubbed tung oil.  The Woogie Board features enclosed dual-Piezo pickups, with a three-way switch for pickup selection, volume control knob, and a high quality output jack all housed in a tele control plate built into the leg.  “The electric washboard is taking things to a whole new level.  It’s never been done before, it’s completely unique, and there is tradition, so it kind of has all the makings of a juggernaut” says Cody.

Saint Blues Woogie Board

“The electric washboard, which is utterly Cody’s instrument, is a thing unto itself” Cody’s father Jim, said.  “That wah-wah pedal does something to it that God never intended. There’s something really, really vulgar about what the wah-wah pedal does.  It makes it sound like oral sex, somehow.”

Seeing is believing…