"Little Gold Fiddle" Banjo Lesson (Mal Gibson)

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "Darling Cora," a tune associated with banjo heritage from Knott County, Kentucky. The description highlights Mal Gibson as the source and provides multiple links for fans to support Clifton Hicks' music, including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal. The content focuses on traditional folk music and the artist's musical journey.

This YouTube video presents a banjo lesson featuring an original composition titled "Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse (How Came That Blood)". The composer, Clifton Hicks, notes that the song was created shortly after the events involving Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The melody is an arrangement of a traditional English folk song with various historical titles. The video offers tablature for the banjo performance and promotes various platforms for supporting the artist, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, and merchandise. It's framed as an ASMR experience.

This YouTube video is a clawhammer banjo lesson focusing on the song "Jay Gould's Daughter." The instructor, Clifton Hicks, provides historical context for the song and demonstrates traditional overhand and two-finger banjo picking techniques. The video also includes a link to tablature on Patreon and mentions various other platforms for supporting the artist, such as SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, T-shirts, PayPal, Venmo, Spotify, and iTunes. The song's lyrics are included, detailing a narrative about Jay Gould's daughter and her final wishes.

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 offers a banjo lesson on the song "Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long," inspired by the 1927 recording of Dock Boggs. The instructor, Clifton Hicks, demonstrates his original two-finger picking technique, differing from Boggs' three-finger style. The description also includes various links for supporting the creator through Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, merchandise, and direct payments, as well as links to his music on Spotify and iTunes. The video focuses on banjo instruction and performance.

This YouTube video is a traditional banjo lesson focusing on the tune "Rye Whiskey," also known by several other names including "Devil's Waltz," "Jack of Diamonds," and "Drunken Hiccups." The lesson features Lee Sexton from Kentucky and specifies the banjo tuning as gCGCD (relative). The description also includes multiple links for supporting the creator, such as Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal.

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.