Clifton Hicks - Been All Around this World - Clawhammer Banjo
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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aka "Bif John Henry" f# - DF#AD. George Gibson: "I learned this song from Stu Jamieson. It was a favorite of Rufus Crisp, a banjo virtuoso recorded by Stuart Jameison and Margot Mayo in 1946. Big John Henry is a truly wonderful song, and is probably from the era when railroads were being built in Floyd County. Rufus played a fretless banjo and used numerous tunings. He lived in Floyd County, which adjoins Knott. I learned a similar song in Knott County from Foster Collins, a neighbor on Buffalo Creek, that I called Totin' All 'Round this World - I sing this song to the melody I learned for Totin' all 'Round this World. Foster Collins, as many in the area did, moved to Michigan and I never saw him again, for I also left Kentucky in the early 1960s." - George Gibson, Last Possum Up the Tree.
Digging on that new railroad, mud up to my knees,
Digging on that new railroad, mud up to my knees,
Working for Big John Henry, and he's so hard to please,
I've been all 'round this world.
Used to have the big white hat, hoss and buggy fine,
Used to have the big white hat, hoss and buggy fine,
Used to court them pretty girls, I used to call them mine,
I've been all 'round this world.
Once I had a big gray hoss, and Darrow was his name,
Used to have a big gray hoss, and Darrow was his name,
They caught me making liquor and I had to leave their plain,
I've been all 'round this world.
Well single boy, single boy, I know you see a good time,
Single boy, single boy, I know you see a good time,
Wait 'til you get married, you'll work 'til the sun goes down,
I've been all 'round this world.
Single girl, single girl, the dress you wear so fine,
Single girl, single girl, the dress you wear so fine,
Wait 'til you get married, you'll work 'til the sun goes down,
I've been all 'round this world.
Digging on that new railroad, mud up to my knees,
Digging on that new railroad, mud up to my knees,
Digging for Big John Henry, and he's so hard to please,
I've been all 'round this world.
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Oldtime banjo close ups and demonstrations of overhand, clawhammer, two finger, thumb lead, 2 finger, frailing and stroke styles plus traditional southern Appalachian mountain hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, blues, waltz pieces, tin pan alley, some Afro-Caribbean and West African history, occasional Cajun and zydeco references, also Métis, Creole, Melungeon and indigenous North American music traditions. Mountain music, southern culture. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, JD Crowe, Clarence Ashley, Fred Cockerham, Dwight Diller, Gaither Carlton, John Snipes, Dink Roberts, Clifford Essex, Joe Sweeney, Archibald Ferguson, Dan Emmett, John Hartford, Picayune Butler, Gus Cannon, Art Rosenbaum, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Makem, Luke Kelly, Charlie Poole, Ola Belle Reed, BF Shelton, Hobart Smith, Samantha Bumgarner, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Ralph Stanley, Odell Thompson, Wade Ward, Hedy West, Fred McDowell, Uncle Homer Walker, Mississippi John Hurt old time, folk, trad roots pickers songsters. #banjo #oldtimemusic #history Riley Baugus, Dirk Powell, Gillian Welch, Maybelle Carter Family. Morgan Sexton, Black Banjo Songsters, Lee Sexton, Clyde Troxell, Blanche Coldiron, Banjo Bill Cornett.
Outstanding and inspiring as always! Favorite version of this song.
Thank you!
Just stopping by to let you know your music is still being enjoyed!
Love this rendition.
Pick it, son! 🪕
Because of channels like this RUclips is my favorite part of Internet.
this is glorious
That sure is a pretty banjo. It makes me think of watching The Grand Ole Opry and how the lights would sparkle and shine off the silvery banjo.
Excellent. Thank you.🙏🇺🇲🕺
Love your version of this classic!When I wanna hear some banjer your’s is the channel I turn to.
man, you make it look like ringing a bell
Love your talent and strong delivery of the tales we love in song!! Thanks for posting!!
love all this.big money for this young man.talent is all over him.wow
Clifton Hicks I really could listen to your work all day sir. Though I am a novice on the Banjo I had to find a cheap means of supplying myself with Banjo strings. So my wife found a simple idea which has been done in Banjo cricles for along while namily using fishing line and simple beads to Fashion them on to the holes at the end of the tailpiece. I have been using fishing line for awhile now and I will never use anything else it is cheap and though a pain to fit they last forever and a day. I as a blind man found the Banjo much more pleasing then the guitar though I have played it for 20 years. Keep up the fine work sir hope you get many more years of playing ans singing! As I hope I do as well.
Many wise banjoists and luthiers use fishing line, sir. I am still wasting my money on packs of strings, for some reason.
I would have laughed at the thought of using fishing line if it wasn't such a good idea.
Authentic too. Lol
Do you select different tensions for thickness and how I wonder??
I've been binge watching Mr Hicks for a few months now, since saving an old broken banjo from a neighbor, it had a broken neck.
I thoroughly enjoyed fixing it and setting the action etc.
Now I'm learning claw hammer. I was a guitar girl but they gather dust now in favour.
@@TheSnigster Well Ma'am I normally just ordered a roll of fishing line using a 100 pound test strength is enough or 90 pounds. I play fret-less banjo now it currently has nylon strings on it. But, in my experience you just get a roll of fishing line and simply use plastic or wooden beads make sure they got a hole in in the center or else you cannot loop them to the string holes on the tailpiece! Then just cut them to the proper length for the string and tune it put to the pitch you want. I would suggest if you want to be all fancy you could get different thickness for each string to get the tone you want but, it is more expensive then doing what I did which was buy a roll of plain fishing line and just string it up.
One thing I loved about it was they really do not hurt your hands at all! Very easy to play and if they break you got at least 12 or more sets of strings from the roll! One thing I want to warn you that your sound will be very different and it will be much quieter then steel or nylon so if you are like me and sing quiet they will work if not then just play them loud to get a good volume. IF you need any advice please write me here or at my email epicurean27@gmail.com I would be glad to help you with whatever I can! keep picking that banjo we sure need more banjo pickers!
Hello from another blind banjo picker
@@JustinHollandFitness Wow pleasure to meet you! I was starting to believe I was the only one!
Best version I have ever heard. You knocked it out of the park Mr. Hicks
I love the sound of the resonator banjo on this. It's the first of your videos I've watched with you playing something other than an openback.
Ole Big John is a hard boss.
One of your finest songs on RUclips. Perfect blend of banjo and blues with your Remington 742 sitting next to you.
Did I hear a harmonica in the background ?or are you just that good ? Lol love your videos you've played a big roll in getting me into this old time banjo. I want to join your patrion soon too 2 bucks cant beat that to learn from one of the best.
I'm new to the banjo. From Down Under. Bought a banjo from Zepp's in NC and Clifton is just my favourite player. What a guy!! Christmas afternoon while everyone is sleeping I just want to learn a new Clifton/George Gibson song!
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I find this recording really inspiring. This'll sound stupid, but it's like listening to a whole goddamn band and then some. Feel it. I imagine that's the point of the banjo. Perfect as it is, I wonder how Gibson's sounds.
Thanks. You can hear some of George Gibson here: juneappalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/last-possum-up-the-tree
Love this version...superior playing !....
Young Mr. Hicks has a striking resemblance to Mr. Andrew Marlon.
So wonderful! Beautiful playing, beautiful singing. Thanks so much posting.
always great to see your videos. thanks for sharing.
Hi Clifton. Tremendous performance!
Very interesting to see you playing a resonater backed Banjo for old time, As I use one myself.
Peace Brother
Awesome man
My nigga. You spot on
Love your style!
Your performance and arrangement has inspired me. Currently have my dobro restrung as a banjo ;)
I never heard this version before but I love it. Do where this version originated from? Your an amazing banjo player.
The version is cliftons own he talks in other vids about how folk is all about creating your own distinct style, he bashes people who try to sound like other artists
speechless❤
Who is that kid?😉
😂 Clifton Hicks banjo heritage
Do you know any other songs to this tune? I feel like I've heard it before. Thanks!
Anybody know what tuning he is using? Tuning in the description don't sound right
Can you post your song Fortress on a Hill? We only get to hear a small snippet of it on the podcast.
was it a diatonic harmonica accompanying you there at the end? sounded real pretty anyways. all of it :)
Do you happen to have a video of yourself or George doing this one two-finger? Thanks very much for posting, great song.
Banjos answer to JUSTIN BIEBER!YEEEHA!
what kind of roll are you using in this song?
Clifton Hicks
Mr. Hicks I wrote you earlier on Banjo Building and I am just wondering if you could share what do you normally use for the Banjo pot? I am speaking here only of the tack head Banjos you have built? The reason I am asking is because I am partely blind and Need just a bit of Detail to learn the Basics of it.
Remarkable as always sir.
I have either used an antique banjo rim, a bentwood rim made by someone else (available through music supply companies as "unmounted hand drum" hoops etc.), or antique dry measures (also known as "grain measures" or "peck measures"). I have never steamed and bent my own hoops although I am told this process is fairly simple. The hardest part about bending one's own wood is finding or making a suitable form around which to bend. It can be done either around a heavy wooden block cylinder (think of a section of telephone pole) or a ring of heavy nails driven in a circular pattern onto a board or table top.
Clifton , Love this ...WHat is the origin of this set of words .. ??
I learned this version from George Gibson (as usual) and I think he learned it from a neighbor named Gran Hudson in the 50s or 60s.
OH DEATH. SPARE ME OVER TIL A NOTHER YEAR..
Accordian! Where!
Harmonica from my father, John W. Hicks.
Is your banjo tuned to open D (ADF#AD)?
+Matt W gcgcd
+Matt W it's GCGCD relatively.
"Yea its in c"
Said the drummer……
I hear Uncle Dave...
Pick it, son! 🪕