Blaine Chappell - Old Tar River - 1840s Minstrel Banjo

This video features Clifton Hicks performing his original song "Crying Shame" from 2005. The description provides extensive links to the artist's online presence, including Patreon for exclusive tablature and content, Banjo Heritage for courses and merchandise, Bandcamp and Spotify for streaming music, and PayPal for donations. The title suggests a personal reflection or a theme of longevity, but the content itself is music-focused, specifically a banjo performance.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks performing "The Devil Song," also known as "The Farmer's Curst Wife," on a mysterious six-string banjo tuned to eAEAB. He mentions learning the song from guitarist Bobby McMillon. The description highlights his Patreon for exclusive content, including tablature, and promotes his Banjo Heritage online course, apparel, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal donations, and YouTube membership. The video's focus is on traditional folk music and banjo performance, with no mention or relevance to firearms.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing "Old Tar River" on a custom 1867 Henry C. Dobson minstrel banjo. The description details the song's history, its attribution to Joel Walker Sweeney, and its early performances by Frank Brower and Dan Emmett. The video highlights the banjo's unique tuning (dGDF♯A) and the use of a Latin Percussion foot tambourine. It also provides various links for supporting the creator's work, including Patreon, Bandcamp, and merchandise.

This video features a musical performance by Old Leatherstocking, presenting the song "Cold Blows the Wind" also known as "Unquiet Grave." The description heavily promotes Clifton Hicks' various platforms, including Patreon for exclusive content like tabs and photos, a Banjo Heritage online course and forum, merchandise, Bandcamp for streaming and downloads, Spotify and iTunes for music streaming, and donation links via PayPal and Venmo. It also highlights the YouTube channel membership for the Banjo Heritage channel.

This video critically examines the current state of 'old-time' music, arguing that it has become a homogenized, commercialized, and festival-focused art form, significantly detached from its traditional American roots and cultural origins. The creator, Clifton Hicks, promotes his Banjo Heritage platform for online courses, forums, merchandise, and music streaming, alongside various donation options.

This YouTube video, titled 'Old-time Music is 💩', features Clifton Hicks discussing his perspective on old-time music, asserting that much of it is not authentically old or traditional. The description provides extensive links to his various platforms, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Banjo Heritage, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and payment services like PayPal and Venmo, for courses, merchandise, music streaming, and donations. It also promotes his YouTube channel membership.

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.