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This video features "Old Leatherstocking - Unquiet Grave" by Clifton Hicks, a banjo performance. The description provides extensive links to the artist's platforms including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, merch store, PayPal, Venmo, Spotify, and iTunes, encouraging fan support and engagement with his music. The primary focus is clearly on the banjo music and the artist's presence within the music community.

This YouTube video features a banjo lesson for the song "Bright Sunny South," learned from a 1960s recording by Dock Boggs. The instructor, Clifton Hicks, mentions that noteworthy versions have also been recorded by Merle & Doc Watson, and Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski. He specifies the tuning and instrument used: an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned fCFA♯C ~ gDGCD. The video also includes lyrics to the song, which speaks of a young man going to war. Links are provided for the TAB, Patreon, BanjoHeritage.com, and various social media and purchase platforms.

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 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 performing the song "Drunkard's Doom" (also known as "I Saw a Man at the Close of Day") on a 5-string gourd banjo made in Jamaica by Jeff Menzies. Hicks learned the song from Matt Kinman and provides the lyrics in the description. The song tells a cautionary tale about alcoholism. The description also includes links to Hicks' Patreon, Bandcamp, merch store, and streaming platforms, along with several hashtags related to traditional and folk music.

This YouTube video, titled "On the Road Somewhere" and also known as "Got a Mule to Ride" and "Bottled in Bond," features Clifton Hicks performing a traditional bawdy blues banjo song. The description highlights the song's origins among railroad workers, hobos, and in Appalachian camps. It directs viewers to various platforms for tablature, online courses, merchandise, streaming music, and donations, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal. The video's content is entirely focused on traditional folk music and banjo performance, with no mention or relevance to 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.