Hymn for Her live (inside) their American Dream

When Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing are home, they’re on the road. When they’re on the road, they’re home. The duo, who tour and perform under the moniker Hymn For Her, have little degree of separation between the two. They don’t live for the road; no, they literally live on it. Their tour vehicle, their home, and their recording studio (in which their debut under this name, Lucy and Wayne and the Amairican Stream, was recorded) is a 16-foot, 1961 Airstream trailer, a vintage road warrior not unlike it’s inhabitants. The pair — who’s not married, as Lucy points out — calls it home along with their black lab and four year old daughter, traversing the country coast to coast spreading their high-octane brand of Americana rock. What once began as a low-key folk duo was all changed when the right tools fell into their hands, transforming their sound forever. Behold the story of Lucy, Wayne, their Airstream, and one really funny lookin’ instrument.

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Let’s start with the basics — what’s a cigar box guitar, and how did it change you live set and sound?
Lucy Tight: It’s just your plain old cuban cigar box with a neck that’s like a broom handle. It’s got three strings; one bass sting and two guitar strings and two inputs. So I can pretty much cover all the bass and guitar. And then Wayne plays the acoustic guitar, hi hat, harmonica. We both do a lot of the singing.

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Was learning that instrument a challenge? What was the toughest part?
LT: It took some time. It’s hard to find time, really. We have a four year old daughter on the road, we’re always really busy. We just came off a three month tour, and then we went back to celebrate her fourth birthday in Philadelphia and now we’re out for another long tour. We’re pretty much on a straight six month tour, and so finding the time to learn things is tough. We actually just got a double neck cigar box guitar, so that’s gonna take a while to sit down a figure out. It was definitely a challenge to learn, but learning it was very rewarding. It’s a fun instrument to play.