Old-time Music is 💩

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 focuses on 'Heirloom Dent Corn - McCormack's Blue GIANT' and is primarily a promotional piece for Banjo Heritage. It directs viewers to various online platforms for a banjo heritage online course, forums, exclusive content on Patreon and SubscribeStar, apparel and merchandise, streaming music on Bandcamp and Spotify, and music downloads on iTunes. It also provides links for PayPal and Venmo donations, and YouTube channel memberships. The video does not appear to contain any firearm-related content.

This YouTube video focuses on music, specifically banjo performance and related resources. The description provides extensive links for tablature, online courses, merchandise, music streaming (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), and donation options. It highlights a Patreon page and SubscribeStar for exclusive content and a Banjo Heritage YouTube membership. The title, 'The last time I seen you walking down the street,' suggests a song title or theme, further reinforcing the musical nature of the content.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks demonstrating and teaching the tune "Sugar Hill" on a 1910 Weymann Keystone State banjo tuned to gCGCD. He learned the piece from Josh Hayes of Watauga County, North Carolina. The description heavily promotes Clifton Hicks' various online platforms, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage website, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and donation links via PayPal and Venmo, as well as YouTube channel memberships.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing "Old Chattanooga" on a banjo. He details the history of the tune, noting it was learned from a 1977 performance of Blaine Smith, Florrie Stewart, and Willie Branan, who themselves learned it in the early 1900s from Tom Douglas. Hicks plays an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned to eBEG♯B (approximately gDGBD) at 432 Hz. The description also includes links to his Patreon, Bandcamp, merch, Spotify, iTunes, SubscribeStar, and YouTube channel memberships.

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 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.