Clifton Hicks - Going Up North (John Jackson) 432 Hz

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks, a musician who handmade his Kentucky mountain banjo. He performs a piece titled 'Sourwood Mountain' in the gDGBd tuning. The description provides extensive links to his various platforms including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, SubscribeStar, PayPal, Venmo, and his YouTube channel's membership option. He also promotes his merchandise available at BanjoHeritage.org. The video focuses on traditional music and banjo performance.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" (Lonesome Road Blues) on a 1910 Weymann "Keystone State" banjo tuned to fCFAC. Recorded in Warren, Pennsylvania, in 2013, the description highlights the performer's evolution in banjo stringing practices, moving away from medium gauge steel strings to nylon strings for pre-WW2 banjos and recommending traditional two-legged maple bridges over three-legged ones. It also promotes various platforms for connecting with Clifton Hicks, including Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and Banjo Heritage resources.

This YouTube video, titled 'Banjo Heritage 4', appears to be a music performance or promotional piece. The description heavily emphasizes links to the artist Clifton Hicks' various online platforms including their website, Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, merchandise store, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube channel memberships. The hashtags provided indicate the content is related to banjo music, specifically within genres like old-time music, bluegrass, folk, country, blues, roots music, Americana, and traditional music, with mentions of 'clawhammer banjo' and 'old time banjo'. There is no indication of firearms content within the provided title or description.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing the 19th-century folk song "Little Mary Phagan" on an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo. He learned the tune from a 1980s film clip of Mabel Cawthorn. The description provides extensive links to Clifton Hicks' various online platforms, including his Banjo Heritage course, Patreon, SubscribeStar, merchandise store, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube memberships. The video is tagged with general music and artist-related terms.

This YouTube video, titled "Was the Banjo Popular BEFORE the Civil War?", explores the historical prevalence of the banjo in the period leading up to the American Civil War. While primarily a historical and musical inquiry, the content provided through the description focuses on promoting the creator's Patreon, online courses, merchandise, and music across various platforms. The creator, Clifton Hicks, also accepts PayPal donations and offers YouTube channel memberships. The video's hashtags indicate a focus on banjo, bluegrass, Americana, and 432Hz frequencies, with no mention of firearms.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing a gourd banjo with a song titled "Muddy Road." The description emphasizes Clifton Hicks' presence on Patreon, SubscribeStar, and Bandcamp for exclusive content, tablature, and music streaming. It also highlights his Banjo Heritage online course and merchandise. The video is clearly focused on banjo music and performance, with no mention or implication of firearms.

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.