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This video features Clifton Hicks playing "Morphine Blues" on a c.1900 Lyon & Healy 5-string banjo. The description includes links to his Patreon for exclusive content like tablature, photos, and forums, as well as his online banjo course, merchandise, streaming services (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), PayPal donations, and YouTube channel membership. The content focuses on banjo music and related resources.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks demonstrating and discussing the traditional banjo tune "Sally Ann" (also known as "Sail Away Ladies"). Hicks explains that he learned the tune during his time in Watauga County, North Carolina, and highlights its commonality as a fiddle dance tune in the region, typically played without vocals. The description provides extensive links to Clifton Hicks' various platforms, including his Banjo Heritage online course, Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube channel memberships, all related to banjo music and education.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing the song "Shaving a Dead Man," learned from Oscar Wright. The song is presented as a Black banjo song similar to "Georgie Buck," with the original lyrics lost. Hicks plays an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned to fG♯C♯G♯C♯, an alternative to the standard g♯BEBE tuning. The description also provides numerous links to the artist's Patreon, website, merchandise, streaming platforms (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), and donation options, including PayPal and YouTube channel memberships. Hashtags like #cliftonhicks, #banjoheritage, #banjo, #bluegrass, and #americana are included.

This video is a clawhammer banjo lesson featuring the song "Old Tar River." The instructor, Clifton Hicks, plays an 1880s Fairbanks & Cole short-scale banjo tuned to gCGBD. The description provides historical context for the song, attributing its composition to Joel Walker Sweeney and mentioning early performances by Frank Brower and Dan Emmett, as well as its first print appearance in Elias Howe's "THE COMPLETE BANJO PRECEPTOR" (1851). The description also includes various links for supporting the creator's work, such as Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, and merchandise.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks playing a banjo tune titled "Raleigh and Spencer." The description mentions learning the tune from Steve Kruger and playing on an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo, tuned south of gDGCD. The video also promotes various platforms for Clifton Hicks' banjo music and teaching, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage website, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube channel memberships, as well as donation links via PayPal and Venmo.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing a rendition of the traditional folk song "Cumberland Gap." Hicks learned this specific arrangement from a recording by Lee Sexton. He plays on a 1910 Weymann "Keystone State" banjo, which is tuned to approximately fDGCD. The description includes the lyrics to the song, as well as extensive promotional links for Hicks' Patreon, Banjo Heritage online course and forums, merchandise, streaming music on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes, and donation options via PayPal and Venmo. The video also highlights a YouTube membership for the Banjo Heritage channel.

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.