Mabel Cawthorn - Banjo Playing Bootlegger from Carnesville, Georgia

This video features Clifton Hicks playing and singing "Cold Icy Mountain" (Old Piney Mountain) on a 5-string gourd banjo that he handmade. The description heavily promotes his various online platforms, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage courses and merchandise, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal donations, encouraging viewers to support his work through subscriptions, purchases, or direct contributions.

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 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 the song "Hold Fast to the Right" (also known as "Mother's Advice"), learned from a 1960s recording by Dock Boggs. Boggs himself learned it from a Methodist preacher around 1930. Hicks plays an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned to eBEG♯B at 432 Hz. The description also promotes various platforms for banjo education, music, and merchandise, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage, Bandcamp, Spotify, and YouTube memberships. While the title and description are focused on music and banjo heritage, the context of the song's origin (a preacher's advice) and the historical elements are present.

This video features a musical performance by Jordan Judkins (guitar), Trenton "Tater" Caruthers (fiddle), and Buddy Ingram (banjo, juice harp) at the Stonecipher House in Frozen Head State Park. The description highlights their rendition of an "old fiddle piece."

This video features Matthew Govig playing the tune "Sally Ann" (also known as "Sail Away, Ladies") on a c. 1900 JB Schall "Waldo" banjo. The performance takes place at the Stonecipher House in Wartburg, Tennessee. The content focuses on traditional music played on an antique banjo.

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.