Banjo Bill Cornett's "Morphine" & Other Lost Recordings

This YouTube video features "Morphine Blues," performed by Banjo Bill Cornett, a musician from Knott County, Kentucky. The recording originates from a 1950s home tape, offering a glimpse into traditional banjo music. The description highlights Clifton Hicks' connection to this heritage and provides various links for listeners to support his work, including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal. The hashtags #cliftonhicks and #banjo further emphasize the artist and genre.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "I got me a woman on the road somewhere," also known as "Got a Mule to Ride" and "Bottled in Bond." The description highlights the song's origins in early blues, railroad worker, and Appalachian camp music. Hicks plays an 1880s J.B. Schall banjo tuned several frets below standard GCGCD tuning. The video description also heavily promotes his various online platforms including Patreon, Banjo Heritage, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal for tablature, courses, merchandise, music streaming, and donations.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing a song titled "On the Road Somewhere," which includes elements of "I've Got a Mule to Ride." The description highlights the song's connection to bluegrass heritage and specific instruments, including an 1880s J.B. Schall "Edmund Valentine" banjo tuned to gCGCD. It details lyrics related to freight trains, mules, relationships, and drinking "bottled-in-bond" whiskey, contrasting it with "cheap old corn." The description also includes various links for fan support and merchandise.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "Cumberland Gap" on a banjo, specifically a two-finger thumb-lead technique. Hicks learned the song from Lee Sexton of Kentucky. The description includes lyrics referencing "Cumberland Gap" and provides links to Hicks' Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal for music and support.

This video features a musical performance by Jordan Judkins (guitar), Trenton "Tater" Caruthers (fiddle), and Buddy Ingram (banjo, juice harp) at the Stonecipher House in Frozen Head State Park. The description highlights their rendition of an "old fiddle piece."

This video features Matthew Govig playing the tune "Sally Ann" (also known as "Sail Away, Ladies") on a c. 1900 JB Schall "Waldo" banjo. The performance takes place at the Stonecipher House in Wartburg, Tennessee. The content focuses on traditional music played on an antique banjo.

This video is a banjo performance of a song titled 'Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse' by Clifton Hicks. The description provides links to the artist's Patreon, merch store, PayPal, Venmo, Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, SubscribeStar, and YouTube channel memberships. It also includes a list of hashtags related to various music genres and the subject matter of the song. The song's title and hashtags directly reference Kyle Rittenhouse and related themes.

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 features Clifton Hicks performing 'Ballad of Bloody Bill Anderson' on a banjo, detailing the historical figure's violent exploits. The performance highlights advanced clawhammer banjo techniques and deep knowledge of American folk music and Civil War lore. The song's narrative covers Anderson's arrival, a fierce battle, his death, and the grim aftermath, including the display of his head and pistols marked with his kills.

Clifton Hicks performs the traditional folk song 'Moonshiner' on a 5-string banjo using a clawhammer technique. The song details a life dedicated to moonshining, sustained by whiskey and beer over twenty-one years. The performance features an instrumental introduction before the vocal verses begin.