Clifton Hicks - Hand Me Down My Old Suitcase - Clawhammer Banjo

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 playing the banjo piece "East Virginia." While the description details the historical migration of settlers that the song represents, the primary focus of the content is a musical performance. Hicks explains his banjo tuning and mentions alternative tunings, while also promoting his various online platforms for music, merchandise, and community engagement, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Hard Times on Beaver Dam Road." He notes learning the song from Josh Hayes on the porch of an early 1900s house in Wautauga County, near the home of the original composer, Frank Proffitt. The description heavily promotes Clifton Hicks' various online platforms, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal, for access to tablature, courses, merchandise, and music.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing "Shortening Bread" on an 1888 Luscomb banjo, tuned to fCFAC. The description strongly emphasizes Clifton Hicks' various platforms for banjo-related content, including Patreon for exclusive tablatures and photos, Banjo Heritage for online courses and merchandise, Bandcamp and Spotify for music streaming, and PayPal for donations. It also highlights a YouTube channel membership option.

This video appears to be a banjo performance featuring a song titled "High Sheriff." The description mentions the song's origins and the specific banjo used, an 1888 Luscomb banjo tuned to fCFAC. The performer, Clifton Hicks, provides links to his Patreon, website, merchandise, and streaming platforms. While the title "High Sheriff and the deputy riding down the road after me..." might evoke imagery of pursuit, the content itself is focused on traditional music and banjo playing, not firearms.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Shaving a Dead Man," learned from Oscar Wright. The song is presented as a Black banjo song similar to "Georgie Buck," with the original lyrics lost. Hicks plays an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned to fG♯C♯G♯C♯, an alternative to the standard g♯BEBE tuning. The description also provides numerous links to the artist's Patreon, website, merchandise, streaming platforms (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), and donation options, including PayPal and YouTube channel memberships. Hashtags like #cliftonhicks, #banjoheritage, #banjo, #bluegrass, and #americana are included.

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.