Rudell Thomas - Banjo Playing Coal Miner from Pinetop, Kentucky

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 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 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 playing two songs, "Coon Hunt Walk Around" and "Brother Jim Got Shot," on a late 19th-century Buckbee banjo with a 1903 patented tone ring. The title "Brother Jim Got Shot" strongly implies a narrative or theme related to firearms, even if no firearms are directly shown or discussed in the description. The context of learning the song from a recording referencing "Wise County, Virginia" might also hint at a historical or folk tradition that sometimes touches upon themes of violence or hardship, which could indirectly involve firearms. The video heavily promotes Clifton Hicks' Patreon, Banjo Heritage courses, merchandise, and other online platforms for music and engagement.

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 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.