Clifton Hicks - Southern Texas (Texas Rangers)

This YouTube video, titled "The Texas Rangers (Southern Texas) Clawhammer Banjo Lesson," offers a banjo lesson focused on a tune related to the ballad "The Texas Rangers." The description highlights the historical context of the tune, referencing early 19th-century ballads and a WW1 ballad. The instructor, Clifton Hicks, details the specific banjo he uses, an 1888 Luscomb banjo, and its tuning (f♯DGAD ~ d♯BEF♯B). The video also provides links to various platforms for purchasing tablature, merchandise, and supporting the creator via Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube memberships.

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 YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "Rooster Crow Medley" by Uncle Dave Macon, which he identifies as a variation of the tune "Sally Goodin." He plays a fretless minstrel banjo tuned to eAEAB to emulate Macon's arrangement, noting that Macon likely used a gCGBD tuning for his recording. The description also provides links to a Patreon for tablature, a "Banjo Heritage" online course and forums, SubscribeStar, merchandise, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, and a YouTube channel membership. Hashtags include #cliftonhicks, #banjoheritage, #banjo, #bluegrass, #americana, and #432hz.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Little Gold Fiddle," a traditional English cante-fable about a fiddler and his wife on a merchant ship, involving a wager about the woman's chastity. The description provides historical context, referencing various printings and documented American versions of the ballad. It highlights the song's themes and origins, also offering links to Patreon, merchandise, and music streaming platforms.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "Danville Girl," a song originally recorded by Dock Boggs in 1927. The description emphasizes learning the song from Boggs' Brunswick Records performance and offers access to lyrics and banjo tablature through various platforms like Patreon, Banjo Heritage, and Bandcamp. It also highlights Hicks' banjo heritage online course and musical releases on Spotify and iTunes. The video aims to share this piece of musical history and connect with an audience interested in traditional banjo music.

This YouTube video focuses on the banjo performance of "Cindy" by Clifton Hicks, who learned the tune from recordings and videos of John Jackson. The description highlights Jackson's guitar and banjo playing, his musical upbringing, and his life in Woodville and Fairfax, Virginia. Clifton Hicks provides multiple links to his Patreon, website, merchandise, and music streaming platforms for viewers interested in supporting his work or accessing tablature and courses.

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.