This video features a performance of the folk song "East Virginia" played on an 1888 Luscomb banjo. The description provides links to the artist's Patreon, online courses, merchandise, and streaming services, encouraging viewers to support his work and access exclusive content, including tablature for the song. The artist, Clifton Hicks, is known for his banjo heritage content.
This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks playing "Cluck Old Hen", "Wild Bill Jones", "Cuckoo", and "East Virginia" on an early 1900s S.S. Stewart "Amateur" Grade 2 banjo. The banjo, identified by its serial number 71548, is estimated to have been made between 1900 and 1910, a period when S.S. Stewart instruments were still being produced after Samuel Swain Stewart's death. The video also includes links to the creator's Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, t-shirts, PayPal, Venmo, Spotify, and iTunes, highlighting his music and ways to support his work. Hashtags like #banjo, #folkmusic, and #history are used.
This video features Clifton Hicks presenting a traditional banjo lesson on the folk song "East Virginia." Hicks notes the song's widespread popularity in the southern mountains, suggesting an early origin in the 18th or early 19th century. He highlights the rarity of field recordings of the song performed on the fiddle. The description also provides alternate titles like "Oh Molly Dear" and "Greenback Dollar," and links to the artist's various platforms for tabs, music, and merchandise.
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