Banjo Lesson - White House Blues (Washington Blues, Cannonball, All You Fascists)
This YouTube video is a banjo lesson focusing on the song "Washington Blues," also known as "White House Blues" and "Cannonball." The instructor, Clifton Hicks, explains that he learned the song from Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" recording from 1944. The description delves into the song's historical origins, referencing the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 and the subsequent demolition of the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. Hicks plays an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo, tuned to gDGBD and fCFAC.






