I utterly second that! Mr Hicks is totally awesome!!! God bless him for keeping me insane!! 🤣🤯🤣OMG he's good!!

Big fan of his he's so young in these videos

That’s good

I just bought a banjo, how do you like it? I’ve been really enjoying it the past couple weeks or so.

So am I... Its amazing

This exact video inspired me to buy one about 6 or 7 years ago. I'm still coming back to this video and Clifton for inspiration!

Ain't that the truth!

callin it! cheers. thank god for youtune. this is some beautifull music

Amazing then and just as good if not better today.

I'm not an american and i always play my banjo in front of my porch or in the streets

A porch is a porch no matter where you are I often play banjo and close my eyes and transcend into the old world Appalachia where I have never been it can be pretty transcendental and the music seems to sound like how I am feeling.

Never say never

ernest: The grass is always greener on the other side. This kind of music and that accent come from the poorest part of the USA. The style of music is called "Appalachian murder ballads." I'm sure life was good sometimes, but I'm sure it was also grim sometimes. I spent some time in rural east Tennessee back in the mid-1970s. Good people, mostly. Kind, hospitable, and real. But the decades have not been kind to Appalachia, where life was always hard already. Rural poverty has gotten worse and is now compounded by epidemic levels of drug addiction.

@@milascave2 on the other hand life is quiet and you can see the stars at night. No traffic, no nothing but the mountains and trees!

Kasbian Vaulks Down here we prefer the latter option :)

One might buy a farm, the barn is an exellent place to practice, and the neighbours might well join you.

@@siggesaltens2663 My wife and I used to have a farm and I did play in the barn. The animals registered no complaints.

Yup, 2nd option works best for me. 2021 everybody has headphones and we have lots of earplugs since we like to shoot ;)

I think I really should. The forest here is the northern tip of the Carolinian forest. Same as there. The rural people here I think are much the same. Sound different, but values are much the same.

ty sir beautifull words

Geoffrey Harris That’s really quite interesting.

This particular song is less celtic influence and more blues/African influence. Another name for this song is country blues by doc bogg. Plus the banjo is an African instrument

@@gavinmcintosh1668 Well thank you doctor Gavin, but I think it’s fairly safe to assume that this instrument has been adopted by those of Celtic heritage and therefore is recognized as part of that heritage . You know kind of like African Americans playing blues guitar . We associate that with African Americans, even though it’s a European instrument.

Yep, theys a bunch of soy boys. Don’t worry, us cultured folk know and enjoy real music and will never stop listening to it! 🤟🏻

swap and pawn

Haha wow, I watched it again in HD! Guess I saw what I wanted to see the first time.

Blaine Gamble he has a page now. Search his name

over_in _the_valley Thanks, it's one of the more interesting songs I have encountered. I learned it from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky who folks can look up on the internet. He has an excellent album called "Last Possum up the Tree" which is available from June Appal Recordings.

+Clifton Hicks Just wanna let you know I've been obsessing over this video for weeks. I play clawhammer but your right hand technique is like nothing I've ever seen. I love the combo of old time 2 finger with claw hammer. I've almost got the tune down but those brush strokes you do in between verses throws me for a loop. I fuckin love your style of playing brother.

Yep... should be able to give this one TWO thumbs up!

No matter what it is, there's going to be people that will dislike it. Anybody that says that ain't true is only kidding themselves.

hell, maybe they're just drop-thumbing along. sorry . . . i'm gonna go back to playing the banjo now