George R. Gibson was born in a log house in Knott County, Kentucky in 1938. He learned to play banjo in the early '50s from his father, neighbors and other musicians who frequented the family's grocery store. Banjo History: http://banjohistory.com/ Last Possum Up the Tree: https://juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/last-possum-up-the-tree Banjer Days: https://juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/banjer-days Art of Field Recording Volume II: https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/track/southern-texas Just Around the Bend: https://smithsonianfolkways.bandcamp.com/track/wild-bill-jones #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=tfxADc3_LvI

Banjo Heritage ? https://patreon.com/CliftonHicks "Boil them Cabbage Down," Hicks Kinfolk & My New Banjo | Banjo Q&A 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=610rQ1ZkCm8