https://patreon.com/CliftonHicks Bandcamp: http://cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com 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 Oldtime banjo close ups and demonstrations of overhand, clawhammer, two finger, thumb lead, 2 finger, frailing and stroke styles plus traditional southern Appalachian mountain hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, blues, waltz pieces, tin pan alley, some Afro-Caribbean and West African history, occasional Cajun and zydeco references, also Métis, Creole, Melungeon and indigenous North American music traditions. Mountain music, southern culture. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, JD Crowe, 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, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Makem, Luke Kelly, Charlie Poole, Ola Belle Reed, BF Shelton, Hobart Smith, Samantha Bumgarner, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Ralph Stanley, Odell Thompson, Wade Ward, Hedy West, Fred McDowell, Uncle Homer Walker, Mississippi John Hurt old time, folk, trad roots pickers songsters. #banjo #oldtimemusic #history Riley Baugus, Dirk Powell, Gillian Welch, Maybelle Carter Family. Morgan Sexton, Black Banjo Songsters, Lee Sexton, Clyde Troxell, Blanche Coldiron, Banjo Bill Cornett. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlnBsSAqSY

https://patreon.com/CliftonHicks Bandcamp: http://cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com 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 Oldtime banjo close ups and demonstrations of overhand, clawhammer, two finger, thumb lead, 2 finger, frailing and stroke styles plus traditional southern Appalachian mountain hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, blues, waltz pieces, tin pan alley, some Afro-Caribbean and West African history, occasional Cajun and zydeco references, also Métis, Creole, Melungeon and indigenous North American music traditions. Mountain music, southern culture. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, JD Crowe, 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, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Makem, Luke Kelly, Charlie Poole, Ola Belle Reed, BF Shelton, Hobart Smith, Samantha Bumgarner, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Ralph Stanley, Odell Thompson, Wade Ward, Hedy West, Fred McDowell, Uncle Homer Walker, Mississippi John Hurt old time, folk, trad roots pickers songsters. #banjo #oldtimemusic #history Riley Baugus, Dirk Powell, Gillian Welch, Maybelle Carter Family. Morgan Sexton, Black Banjo Songsters, Lee Sexton, Clyde Troxell, Blanche Coldiron, Banjo Bill Cornett. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miSeZe7r6U8

Banjo Heritage ? https://Patreon.com/CliftonHicks I learned to sing "Oh! Susanna" from my grandfather, Aaron Mayo Moore, when I was four or five years old. This is my own original arrangement for traditional two-finger banjo. I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee I'm going to Louisiana my true love for to see, It rained all night the day I left the weather it was dry The sun was so hot I froze to death Susanna don't you cry! I had a dream the other night when everything was still I thought I saw Susanna gal a'coming down the hill, The buckwheat cake was in her hand the tears were in her eyes I said, "I'm coming from the South," Susanna don't you cry! I soon will be in New Orleans and then I'll look around And when I find Susanna gal I'll fall upon the ground, But if I cannot find her this man will surely die And when I'm dead and buried Susanna don't you cry! SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/cliftonhicks Bandcamp http://cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com T-shirts https://cliftonhicks.myteespring.co/ PayPal https://paypal.me/cliftonhicksbanjo Venmo @cliftonhicksbanjo Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fQxc3ZY6LTVWkfxvsEPUV iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/artist/clifton-hicks/1437321931 Patreon https://patreon.com/CliftonHicks #banjo #folkmusic #history ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjKj8IgiUWA

Banjo Heritage ? https://Patreon.com/CliftonHicks I learned this tune from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. When George was learning to play banjo in early 1950s, one old timer told him, "There's more music in the first string than in any other string on the banjo." That's certainly true of this archaic version of "Cackling Hen" and many other early dance pieces (i.e. hoedowns, breakdowns) like it. My instrument is an 1888 Luscomb banjo made in Boston. I'm using a two-legged, solid maple bridge that I carved myself, Aquila nylgut strings and a medium goat skin head. SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/cliftonhicks Bandcamp http://cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com T-shirts https://cliftonhicks.myteespring.co/ PayPal https://paypal.me/cliftonhicksbanjo Venmo https://venmo.com/cliftonhicksbanjo Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fQxc3ZY6LTVWkfxvsEPUV iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/artist/clifton-hicks/1437321931 #banjo #oldtimemusic #appalachia ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRcld549pA