Josh Hayes - Beaver Dam Road (Frank Proffitt)

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Sugar Hill." The description indicates the song was learned from Matt Kinman and Josh Hayes in Watauga County, North Carolina in 2008. Kinman played the fiddle and Hayes played the banjo. The video also promotes various platforms for Clifton Hicks' music and banjo-related content, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Banjo Heritage, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal donations. The hashtags provided are #cliftonhicks, #banjoheritage, #banjo, #bluegrass, #americana, and #432hz. There is no mention or demonstration of firearms or related equipment in the provided information.

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 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 traditional folk song "Bonnie George Campbell," also known as "Bonnie James Campbell." Hicks notes that he learned the song from Bascom Lamar Lunsford and that it was also recorded by Frank Proffitt. He highlights the song's Child Ballad number (210) and Roud number (338), and mentions Lunsford's theory that it's an ancestor of "Cumberland Gap." The description includes lyrics and links to Hicks' various platforms including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, and merchandise.

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.