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This video features a performance of the folk song "East Virginia" played on an 1888 Luscomb banjo. The description provides links to the artist's Patreon, online courses, merchandise, and streaming services, encouraging viewers to support his work and access exclusive content, including tablature for the song. The artist, Clifton Hicks, is known for his banjo heritage content.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing the folk song "Sugar Hill." He learned the song from Matt Kinman and Josh Hayes in Watauga County, North Carolina, in the summer of 2008. Kinman, originally from Arizona, played the fiddle, and Hayes, from Wilkes County, played the banjo. The description also includes multiple links to Clifton Hicks' Patreon, SubscribeStar, Banjo Heritage website, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal for support and access to tablature, merchandise, and music.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing the folk song "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie." The description highlights the song's history, noting its origins as "The Ocean Buried" in 1839 and its evolution into cowboy versions appearing in the early 1900s. Hicks mentions being influenced by Carl T. Sprague's 1926 recording and a more recent, stripped-down rendition by Scottish banjoist Sam Shackleton. The video also promotes various platforms for accessing tablature, lessons, music, and merchandise related to banjo heritage.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "I've Been All Around this World" with a focus on the "new railroad" theme, mentioning mud up to the knees and working for a demanding boss named John Henry. The musical accompaniment is provided by an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned to fBbFBbC at 432 Hz. The description also promotes Clifton Hicks' Patreon, an online banjo heritage course, and merchandise.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing a song titled "Moonshiner." The description indicates it's a traditional Kentucky song, and Hicks learned a version from John Hall and his father. He discusses using the gDGAD tuning for the banjo and shares lyrics about being a moonshiner for twenty-one years, spending money on whisky, setting up stills, and the allure of women and moonshine. The description also provides links to his Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal for support and purchasing his music. While the song's theme relates to moonshining, a historically associated activity with firearms and self-sufficiency, the video itself does not appear to directly involve firearms or related equipment.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the traditional folk song 'The Bravest Cowboy,' also known as 'Roving Cowboy.' The performance highlights his skilled clawhammer banjo technique on an open-back banjo. The lyrics delve into the historical context of a soldier's experience during the Civil War era, referencing specific events and the intensity of combat.

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.