Videos tagged with Old Leatherstocking

This video captures an impromptu live performance by "Old Leatherstocking" at the 2025 Wilson County Tennessee State Fair in Lebanon, TN. The performance features harmonica virtuoso Seth “Polecat” Shumate. The description also provides multiple links to the artist's Patreon, merchandise, music streaming platforms (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), and donation options, indicating a focus on promoting the artist's work and community engagement.

This YouTube video features "Old Leatherstocking - Death and the Lady," a musical performance. The description prominently promotes the artist Clifton Hicks' various online platforms, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes, for exclusive content, music streaming, and donations. It also highlights the "Banjo Heritage" online course and merchandise. The content appears to be focused on music, specifically banjo performance, rather than firearms.

This video features a musical performance by Old Leatherstocking, presenting the song "Cold Blows the Wind" also known as "Unquiet Grave." The description heavily promotes Clifton Hicks' various platforms, including Patreon for exclusive content like tabs and photos, a Banjo Heritage online course and forum, merchandise, Bandcamp for streaming and downloads, Spotify and iTunes for music streaming, and donation links via PayPal and Venmo. It also highlights the YouTube channel membership for the Banjo Heritage channel.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing 'Cold Blows the Wind' on a 5-string banjo using the clawhammer technique. The performance is set against a stark, black-and-white woodland backdrop, with the artist adopting a historical frontier persona. The song's narrative unfolds through somber vocals, detailing a lover's mourning at a grave and a spectral warning from the deceased.

This video delves into the rich and surprising history of the banjo, tracing its origins to the 17th-century Caribbean and its evolution into a prominent instrument in both African and European folk culture. It highlights the banjo's presence in the early United States by 1740 and its central role in folk music by 1780. The description also touches upon its later adoption by blackface minstrelsy in the 1830s, contrasting its commercial rise in the North with its more traditional use in the South until after the Civil War. The video features Clifton Hicks, who shares insights into this musical heritage and promotes his various platforms for support.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the traditional folk ballad 'Death and the Lady' on a banjo. The performance utilizes a clawhammer style and is presented in a stark black and white aesthetic, enhancing the somber and melancholic tone of the narrative. The song recounts a lady's encounter with Death and her failed attempt to bargain for more time.