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Handmade gourd banjo as it would've sounded during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Handmade gourd banjo as it would've sounded during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Clifton Hicks

50,812 views • 4 days ago

"Chickens Crowing on Sourwood Mountain" played on homemade gourd banjo at the 1794 Tellico Blockhouse in Vonore, Tennessee.
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"Chickens Crowing on Sourwood Mountain" played on homemade gourd banjo at the 1794 Tellico Blockhouse in Vonore, Tennessee.

Clifton Hicks

103,241 views • 3 months ago

Something like this banjo that I based on two 1690s examples from Jamaica:
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Something like this banjo that I based on two 1690s examples from Jamaica:

Clifton Hicks

69,909 views • 3 months ago

Traditional American hoedown music played on handmade, Kentucky-style mountain banjo:
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Traditional American hoedown music played on handmade, Kentucky-style mountain banjo:

Clifton Hicks

60,955 views • 3 months ago

I learned "Muddy Road" from a 1960s recording of Claude Wolfenbarger of Grainger County, Tennessee. The first part of the melody is the same as "Willie Moore." My instrument is a traditional gourd banjo handmade by myself. My tuning is dADF♯A ~ gDGBD.
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I learned "Muddy Road" from a 1960s recording of Claude Wolfenbarger of Grainger County, Tennessee. The first part of the melody is the same as "Willie Moore." My instrument is a traditional gourd banjo handmade by myself. My tuning is dADF♯A ~ gDGBD.

Clifton Hicks

58,660 views • 4 months ago

Hi-ho de boatmen row! Floatin' down de River de Ohio...
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Hi-ho de boatmen row! Floatin' down de River de Ohio...

Clifton Hicks

26,411 views • 3 months ago

Went down to Lynchburg to get a jug of wine Hitched me to the whipping post gave me 99 One more woulda killed me! Trouble on my mind x2 If trouble don't kill me I'll live a long time Went back to Lynchburg to get a pint of gin Hitched me to the whipping post gave me Hell again...
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Went down to Lynchburg to get a jug of wine Hitched me to the whipping post gave me 99 One more woulda killed me! Trouble on my mind x2 If trouble don't kill me I'll live a long time Went back to Lynchburg to get a pint of gin Hitched me to the whipping post gave me Hell again...

Clifton Hicks

25,478 views • 5 months ago

West Virginia mountain banjo "Sourwood Mountain"
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West Virginia mountain banjo "Sourwood Mountain"

Clifton Hicks

25,213 views • 5 months ago

"Chickens Crowing on Sourwood Mountain" traditional banjo
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"Chickens Crowing on Sourwood Mountain" traditional banjo

Clifton Hicks

16,254 views • 6 months ago

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