Clifton Hicks - Raleigh and Spencer

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 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 YouTube video features Clifton Hicks playing "Old Coon Dog" (Turkey Buzzard) on an 1880s Cubley banjo. The description highlights the banjo's cheap nature, unusual features contributing to an interesting sound, and the rich character developed over 140 years of use. The video also promotes various platforms for accessing exclusive content, courses, merchandise, and music by Clifton Hicks, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and PayPal.

This video showcases an early, handmade 4-string gourd banjo built by Clifton Hicks around 2021. Hicks performs two traditional southern United States dance tunes: "Johnson Boys" and "Hook & Line." The description strongly encourages viewers to support the artist and his "Banjo Heritage" through various platforms like Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and direct donations. The content is focused on traditional American folk music and instrument craftsmanship.

This YouTube video is a clawhammer banjo lesson for the song "Raleigh and Spencer." The instructor, Clifton Hicks, shares his learned version of the tune, which he attributes to musicians from Watauga County, North Carolina, and a fiddle recording by Tommy Jarrell. He also provides historical context for the song's lyrics, debunking common Civil War associations. The video details the specific banjo used, an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb," and its tuning. Links for the instructor's online course, Patreon, Bandcamp, and other platforms are included.

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 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.