Trouble On My Mind - Clawhammer Banjo Close Up

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 video features a close-up performance of the banjo piece "Prodigal Son" by Dock Boggs, performed by Clifton Hicks. The description provides multiple links for supporting the artist, including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal. The content focuses on traditional banjo music performance.

This YouTube video features Murphy Campbell performing and singing the song "Two Sisters" on a 5-string banjo. The performance takes place at the historic Hagood Mill Site in North Carolina. The video highlights Murphy Campbell's musical talent with the banjo.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing the tune "Sundown" on a Terry Bell "Boucher" minstrel banjo. He notes that he learned the song from Art Rosenbaum shortly before his passing. The banjo used is an early 2000s model, tuned a few frets below gCGCD. The description also includes a Patreon link for Clifton Hicks.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Little Gold Fiddle," a traditional English cante-fable about a fiddler and his wife on a merchant ship, involving a wager about the woman's chastity. The description provides historical context, referencing various printings and documented American versions of the ballad. It highlights the song's themes and origins, also offering links to Patreon, merchandise, and music streaming platforms.

This YouTube video offers a banjo lesson focusing on the clawhammer style, teaching the tune "Muddy Road." The instructor, Clifton Hicks, learned the song from a 1960s recording and notes its alternate titles like "County Jail," "Fall On My Knees," and "Lonesome Road." He also mentions that the A part melody is shared with "Willie Moore." The video showcases the instructor playing on an 1880s Fairbanks & Cole banjo, tuned to fCFAC and gDGBD. The description also provides multiple avenues for viewers to support the creator's work, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, and direct donations via PayPal and Venmo.

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.