Support this project: https://patreon.com/CliftonHicks Plenty of tool marks and heavy use-wear on this outstanding example of early 20th-century Southern folk art! This handmade banjo's only known provenance is a note from the former owner asserting that it was "found in Virginia." Hard pine neck, steam-bent white oak pot, hand-carved walnut friction tuners, and original skin head with iron hoop and nails to secure it. I don't think the person who built this banjo used a single piece of sandpaper. Deep grooves in its fretless fingerboard indicate that it was well-loved and played often. Bandcamp: http://cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com Buy a T-shirt: https://cliftonhicks.myteespring.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fQxc3ZY6LTVWkfxvsEPUV iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/clifton-hicks/1437321454 Venmo: https://venmo.com/cliftonhicksbanjo PayPal: https://paypal.me/cliftonhicksbanjo #banjo #folkmusic #history Banjo heritage, overhand, clawhammer, two finger, thumb lead, 2 finger, frailing and stroke styles plus Appalachian mountain hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, Oldtime banjo old time close ups demonstrations blues, waltz, skiffle, tin pan alley, Afro-Caribbean and West African, Cajun zydeco, Métis, Creole, Melungeon indigenous native American music traditions. Folk art, asmr, relaxation, calming, meditation, chill, trance. Mountain music, southern culture, dark folk, murder ballad. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Unknown Henson, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Riley Baugus, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leroy Troy, JD Crowe, Rising Appalachia, Clarence Ashley, Fred Cockerham, Dwight Diller, Gaither Carlton, John Snipes, Dink Roberts, Clifford Essex, Joe Sweeney, Archibald Ferguson, Dan Emmett, John Hartford, Picayune Butler, Gus Cannon, Art Rosenbaum, Coon Creek Girls, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Makem, Luke Kelly, Charlie Poole, Ola Belle Reed, BF Shelton, Rhiannon Giddens, Billy Whitlock, Hobart Smith, Samantha Bumgarner, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Dom Flemons, Ralph Stanley, music tutorial, Odell Thompson, Wade Ward, Hedy West, Fred McDowell, poor white trash, Steve Earle, Del McCoury Band, Clifton Hicks, Stanley Hicks, Dee Hicks, Dirk Powell, Enoch Rutherford, Ray Hicks, Mabel Cawthorn, Florie Stewart, Maybelle Carter Family, Uncle Homer Walker, Mississippi John Hurt old time, folk, Gillian Welch, trad roots picker redneck songster troubadour minstrel medicine show tent revival hoedown. Morgan Sexton, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtoQnomyGAo