432 hz is where the DAWGS prefer to reside. Very relaxing. I sent this to my bro, who was Vice in Austin for years. Retired now works in DA office. He's been down through there. Thank you , sir.
Hello Clifton from a carpenter in the south of Australia I listened to you talk on eyes left and it was one very emotional listen. I then got to listen to you play just now and that was absolutely beautiful. I can’t wait to show my dad who loves the guitar and has a very special talent much like yourself. I also can’t wait to show my brother in law. He started making guitars 3 years ago and he recently truly had the most beautiful looking acoustic guitars at the recent Melbourne guitar festival.He to plays beautiful. I really wish I could have shown my grandfather,although he never played an instrument as far as I know he fought in Germany with the British in WW2. My younger sister is blind and I must say I cannot wait to let her hear you play and sing as she once did often but not so much lately. Anyway I’m on my lunch break and I must get back to work. Thankyou so much. Wishing you and your friends, your loved ones and those close to you health happiness and a wonderful life. Kind Regards Clifton, Chris👍
Got to be one of my favorites by you. I came across you randomly one day, and aint stopped listening since. Thank you for serving, I also wonder what your native state is.
I think I'll adopt your two finger style. Traditional "Scruggs" style makes my fingers weak lol good playing. Truly is a deep song, and as a native Texan, a damn good one
Very inspirational, like all of your songs. Thanks for posting all these videos. They are a great source and make you want to dig deeper. Cheerio from The Netherlands!
Way down in Southern Texas where I rejoin to stay i left my kind ol parents when their hair was turning gray i joined them dying cowboys i knew i had to ride so i climbed up in the saddle and i bid this world goodbye i saw them indjuns comin i heard them give their yell my feelings at that moment no human's tongue can tell our captain stood beside me he gave me good advice he told me how to surrender so i might save my life my friend shot down beside me tears fallin from my face oh how i love you brother but i cant take your place and then i thought of mother who said in tears to me to you they are all strangers at home you had better be i thought her old and childish the best she did not know my mind was set on rangin so westward i did go
I been watching your videos since you were posting as ruralblight, This has to be one of the best,most tasteful and haunting videos you've ever posted.I absolutely love it and your picking lifts it to another level..Absolutely awesome
I think I know that banjo, after having seen about 15 of your videos in the last two days. Solid, man, solid. The wear pattern below the strings shows about how old the video is.
Yes, Rob, this was back before the hide got _really_ gross and I scrubbed her down for the last time. Do let me know when it arrives, I miss it already!
Way down in southern Texas where I rejoined to stay, I left my kind old parents when their hair was turning grey. I joined them dying cowboys I knew I had to ride, I climbed up in the saddle and bid this world goodbye. I saw them Indians coming I heard them give their yell, My feelings at that moment no human's tongue can tell. I saw their shining rifles their bullets 'round me flew, Now all my strength had left me and all my courage too. My horse she got excited she could not stand still, The firelight from our pistols like sunshine on the hill. Our captain stood beside me he gave me good advice, He told me how to surrender so I might save my life. My friends shot down beside me tears falling from my face, O how I love you brother but I can't take your place. And then I thought of mother who said in tears to me, "To you they are all strangers at home you'd better be." I thought her old and childish the best she did not know, My mind was set on ranging so westward I did go.
@CliftonHicks I know it’s not about the clothes and “fashion” but I’ll be dern if a dark blue or black Henley with a pair of duck canvas or cords pants doesn’t look straight up cool Lol hahaha! Thanks for another great video Bub!!!
@@RoyceLerwick my great grabdmother had a door just like that. small mesh protected on the bottom half by larger mesh. i guess to keep dogs or other small animals from tearing it open
That is a Weymann banjo made in Philadelphia about 1890-1900. Weymann was mostly known for their specialty banjos (e.g. banjo uke, guitar banjo, plectrums etc.) and my understanding is that their standard 5-string banjos are relatively rare. This one does play very nicely and sounds great.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Thanks for this. I’ve come across Weymann banjo-ukes but not a 5 string. I just assumed that their 5 strings must be presentation models, and so not that many were made back in the day. I had not considered that they had specialized in the hybrid instruments.
Hope it wasn’t Comanche. In their case death was much preferable to capture. Great job on this haunting song. Good picking and good singing on a sweet banjo.
Clifton Hicks the neck looks newish? This song would have been great for the series Alienist. The plot this season involved Indian massacres. Too bad. I know Hillary burhans had one of her songs used for deadwood.
Bryan: It's actually all original except for the tuners and a few tension hooks! Even the fingerboard, which is soft "coffee" or "pear" wood (faux ebony) and has cracked and flaked all over is original. These Weymanns are AWESOME but they made relatively few five-string banjos. I'd love to have my music used in a big TV $how... and I have read the book The Alienist twice when I was a kid. The book is amazing.
Clifton Hicks you need to contact an agent or, something because I just finished session 1 and this song would have been so fitting for many of the plot elements, and time period of course
Tex Ritter did not compose "Texas Rangers." The ballad describes violence which occurred in Texas during the early 1800s, and I think the earliest recordings of it probably appeared in the late 1920s/early 1930s.
That my good sir is why I follow all your videos you know so much about the history and I appreciate it. I appreciate it because I won't sound like an idiot in the future telling people that Tex Ritter wrote this s*** lol
Howdy there! Not sure if you'll ever get to reading this, but have you considered doing a full lesson on this? I (and others) would love to add it to our musical Arsenal.
www.banjohistory.com/recording will take you to two good albums by George Gibson, one of "the masters" I happened to learn from. If you are looking for an instruction manual I would recommend either of the books published by Art Rosenbaum: ruclips.net/video/LadR3ifjXUM/видео.html I would say that I learned half of these songs from old field recordings (Library of Congress, Folkways Records and so forth) and half in-person from other (usually much older) musicians. I've been memorizing and regurgitating archaic banjo music since I was at least fourteen, so I've been at it almost twenty years. Take your time.
432hz ??? Don’t give away the secrets dude. If everybody tuned to 432hz... I guess we’d all be in harmony. It’s a rabbit hole that’s worth going down for any musician. It deals with the frequency’s and the effect on the human body. At this point, we should also talk about the 1. Another music secret. Empathizing the 1.
it is a rabbit hole. It's all very interesting, i've been there myself, but let me burst your bubble. Hz measures vibrations a second. A second is an measurement of time based on the earths rotation around its axis and orbit of the sun. It all seems self consistent, but on a universal level, seconds are an ARBITRARY measurement based only on earth's movement. There is no universal unit of time that a second represents. so a Hz is not related to an ultimate universal truth. Yes I'm aware of the geometry and maths that make the whole thing seem like a universal secret. It's sadly wishful thinking and a dead end. 432hz tuning does sound cool, however, but so does any arbitrary unorthodox amount of down tuning. You can try this for yourself and see. Anyway, I hope that is helpful and might help you not to waste time perusing the 432hz tuning/sacred geometry thing.
@@Tasmanaut Wow!! You are a rare bird. You seem to understand resonance and it’s powerful effects. I have a kindergarten understanding of this topic. I do understand that frequency can be a deep rabbit hole. Breaking glass?? Crumbing a building?? Cuban embassy attack on US delegates?? Resonance is a huge topic that one would need to study years to truly comprehend. ….frequency is only one part of music. Timing is also another deep rabbit hole. James Brown emphasized the 1. Pay attention to a JB tune and you’ll notice it to. Emphasize the one is pure magic.
@@Melo7849 I think i'm detecting sarcasm. I'm not disagreeing that extremely interesting things can be done with resonance, only that hz is an arbitrary measurement because it involves seconds, and seconds are an arbitrary division of time based on the earths rotation and orbit that isn't a magical universal constant measure of time, thereby dispelling the idea that musical tunings can be linked to some sort of sacred geometry. The mathematics involved when using A =432hz are beautiful and it was extremely compelling for me until I had this debate with someone that made me realise a second is not a universal constant. There are many interesting areas of this sort of stuff, i'm only suggesting a=432 being a bit of a dead end. Pythagorean temperament is a pretty interesting topic as well. I'm no expert, I just thought I had discovered the holy grail one day with this stuff until I realised I hadn't
good pickin
Much appreciated, Orville.
your welcome if you like to hear old mountain tales and jack tales check out my videos. see ya
Yes sir, I know who you are.
oh I'm his son I just started the channel for him he don't like computers much lol
432 hz is where the DAWGS prefer to reside. Very relaxing.
I sent this to my bro, who was Vice in Austin for years. Retired now works in DA office. He's been down through there. Thank you , sir.
Haunting performance.
Hello Clifton from a carpenter in the south of Australia
I listened to you talk on eyes left and it was one very emotional listen.
I then got to listen to you play just now and that was absolutely beautiful.
I can’t wait to show my dad who loves the guitar and has a very special talent much like yourself.
I also can’t wait to show my brother in law.
He started making guitars 3 years ago and he recently truly had the most beautiful looking acoustic guitars at the recent Melbourne guitar festival.He to plays beautiful.
I really wish I could have shown my grandfather,although he never played an instrument as far as I know he fought in Germany with the British in WW2.
My younger sister is blind and I must say I cannot wait to let her hear you play and sing as she once did often but not so much lately.
Anyway I’m on my lunch break and I must get back to work.
Thankyou so much.
Wishing you and your friends, your loved ones and those close to you health happiness and a wonderful life.
Kind Regards Clifton,
Chris👍
Wow Brother....Haunting As Hell.....Just Perfect Clifton.....Really.....
That's a deep song.
Got to be one of my favorites by you. I came across you randomly one day, and aint stopped listening since. Thank you for serving, I also wonder what your native state is.
I was born in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up in different places around FL, GA and SC.
Thank you for replying, I am just a southeastern Kentuckian born and raised.
love the 432, top man :)
all my strung instruments are 432hz
I dig your style Brother. Thank You.
Great tune Clifton!!
Once upon a time I was a park ranger in Texas. This song soothes my tired heart, much thanks for the post.
I think I'll adopt your two finger style. Traditional "Scruggs" style makes my fingers weak lol good playing. Truly is a deep song, and as a native Texan, a damn good one
Haunting and inspiring. Thanks, Clifton. I’m learning a lot from watching you and love old timey two finger thumb lead banjo.
obie and Jerome are our cats, I really love this song. I put it to guitar, thank you Mr Hicks.
Damn that's what I'm talking bout
Just passing through listening to a mix of Clifton. This performance is as good as it gets! Amazing.
💔Cette musique a Une Âme je pleure les paroles sont réelle
Love this one!!! Beautiful.
Congratulations! I am this songs 1000th like!
Great stuff !! Never stop ....I could stay up all night listening this.
Great music and great story telling .. Thanks Clifton !!
That banjo you're playing, brought over by slaves, was given to this new world to play it"s lament to songs such as this.
That banjo I'm playing was brought over from Philadelphia around 1910.
Merci Encore !
Hell yeah, that sir is songwriting and also how to play and sing it. Fine work, sir, captivates and chills.
More amazing music hadn't heard you play that one that way before. I didn't even realize it was oneI had heard until a little ways in.
Such a delightful frequency ✌️
Very inspirational, like all of your songs. Thanks for posting all these videos. They are a great source and make you want to dig deeper. Cheerio from The Netherlands!
That song really suits your voice lad. Great stuff
Way down in Southern Texas
where I rejoin to stay
i left my kind ol parents
when their hair was turning gray
i joined them dying cowboys
i knew i had to ride
so i climbed up in the saddle
and i bid this world goodbye
i saw them indjuns comin
i heard them give their yell
my feelings at that moment
no human's tongue can tell
our captain stood beside me
he gave me good advice
he told me how to surrender
so i might save my life
my friend shot down beside me
tears fallin from my face
oh how i love you brother
but i cant take your place
and then i thought of mother
who said in tears to me
to you they are all strangers
at home you had better be
i thought her old and childish
the best she did not know
my mind was set on rangin
so westward i did go
soulful picking for sure!
Outstanding performance! Thank you.
man that banjer Sounds good love your stuff !!
I been watching your videos since you were posting as ruralblight, This has to be one of the best,most tasteful and haunting videos you've ever posted.I absolutely love it and your picking lifts it to another level..Absolutely awesome
I think I know that banjo, after having seen about 15 of your videos in the last two days. Solid, man, solid.
The wear pattern below the strings shows about how old the video is.
Yes, Rob, this was back before the hide got _really_ gross and I scrubbed her down for the last time. Do let me know when it arrives, I miss it already!
Nice sounding corner you found there! you've develloped nicely sir! Big inspiration. Thanks!
Man I dig your music! Just resonates with my inner being if you know what I mean, Outstanding!
much love from BC
This song moves me, for many reasons. Thanks for posting. Any chance you could post the lyrics? I'd really like to learn this
Way down in southern Texas where I rejoined to stay,
I left my kind old parents when their hair was turning grey.
I joined them dying cowboys I knew I had to ride,
I climbed up in the saddle and bid this world goodbye.
I saw them Indians coming I heard them give their yell,
My feelings at that moment no human's tongue can tell.
I saw their shining rifles their bullets 'round me flew,
Now all my strength had left me and all my courage too.
My horse she got excited she could not stand still,
The firelight from our pistols like sunshine on the hill.
Our captain stood beside me he gave me good advice,
He told me how to surrender so I might save my life.
My friends shot down beside me tears falling from my face,
O how I love you brother but I can't take your place.
And then I thought of mother who said in tears to me,
"To you they are all strangers at home you'd better be."
I thought her old and childish the best she did not know,
My mind was set on ranging so westward I did go.
So good (as always)!
Very nice. This has just inspired me to try and learn thumb lead.
That is real fine.
Thanks very much.
super cool ! I like your voice :)
Love the tone of your banjo
Great performance.
Killer as always, what kind of big iron are you carrying?
That was a Ruger SP101 that I carried for about ten years.
@CliftonHicks I know it’s not about the clothes and “fashion” but I’ll be dern if a dark blue or black Henley with a pair of duck canvas or cords pants doesn’t look straight up cool Lol hahaha! Thanks for another great video Bub!!!
awesome mate
Good one Clifton! I'd sure like to pick a few with you sometime!
real bluesy feel....
so good👏
Great!!
Just. Rad.
Clifton Hicks on his porch. OOORRRAH.
And I love the rabbit wire cage to the left.
LOL that's my screen door!
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Well, you must have some pretty big mosquitoes.
@@RoyceLerwick my great grabdmother had a door just like that. small mesh protected on the bottom half by larger mesh. i guess to keep dogs or other small animals from tearing it open
EYES LEFT podcast brought me here :)
i love the sound of that banjo! what kind is it?
That is a Weymann banjo made in Philadelphia about 1890-1900. Weymann was mostly known for their specialty banjos (e.g. banjo uke, guitar banjo, plectrums etc.) and my understanding is that their standard 5-string banjos are relatively rare. This one does play very nicely and sounds great.
Clifton Hicks ... sure does. 😃🎶〰
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Thanks for this. I’ve come across Weymann banjo-ukes but not a 5 string. I just assumed that their 5 strings must be presentation models, and so not that many were made back in the day. I had not considered that they had specialized in the hybrid instruments.
Hope it wasn’t Comanche. In their case death was much preferable to capture. Great job on this haunting song. Good picking and good singing on a sweet banjo.
The apache werent to kind to their captives either
Frickin Awesome! BTW what kind of banjo is that?
c. 1910 Weymann
Clifton Hicks the neck looks newish? This song would have been great for the series Alienist. The plot this season involved Indian massacres. Too bad. I know Hillary burhans had one of her songs used for deadwood.
Bryan: It's actually all original except for the tuners and a few tension hooks! Even the fingerboard, which is soft "coffee" or "pear" wood (faux ebony) and has cracked and flaked all over is original. These Weymanns are AWESOME but they made relatively few five-string banjos.
I'd love to have my music used in a big TV $how... and I have read the book The Alienist twice when I was a kid. The book is amazing.
Clifton Hicks you need to contact an agent or, something because I just finished session 1 and this song would have been so fitting for many of the plot elements, and time period of course
Clifton are you in Double C or G tuning? The tuning sounds like a minor one. Beautiful work as always.
Tuning is f#DGAD
he usually tunes down his jo a step, i was able to get something i liked with E C F G C (every note one whole step down from F# DGAD)
😊😊😊❤😊😊😊
don't mess with the tribes
Was this a song before Tex Ritter wrote Texas Rangers or did he even write it all my God I'm so confused
Tex Ritter did not compose "Texas Rangers." The ballad describes violence which occurred in Texas during the early 1800s, and I think the earliest recordings of it probably appeared in the late 1920s/early 1930s.
That my good sir is why I follow all your videos you know so much about the history and I appreciate it. I appreciate it because I won't sound like an idiot in the future telling people that Tex Ritter wrote this s*** lol
Howdy there! Not sure if you'll ever get to reading this, but have you considered doing a full lesson on this? I (and others) would love to add it to our musical Arsenal.
Will do.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo You just made my day
How did you learn all these songs? I just got a banjo and I'm having a hard time finding material and learning what I can find.
www.banjohistory.com/recording will take you to two good albums by George Gibson, one of "the masters" I happened to learn from. If you are looking for an instruction manual I would recommend either of the books published by Art Rosenbaum: ruclips.net/video/LadR3ifjXUM/видео.html
I would say that I learned half of these songs from old field recordings (Library of Congress, Folkways Records and so forth) and half in-person from other (usually much older) musicians. I've been memorizing and regurgitating archaic banjo music since I was at least fourteen, so I've been at it almost twenty years. Take your time.
Clifton Hicks Thank you, you're great at what you do!
Is this a different version of Roving Rangers?
Great song but you never surrender to comanches
Cant stop listening, how do you do the brush and drum hit all in one?
What tuneing?...F#..?
Is there a lesson for this song?
Not yet, but it's frequently requested, so I will do a lesson/tab on it.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Awesome! I'm currently learning German War from your lesson.
Hi what tuning are you playing in. Thanks.
F#DGAD
What's the "432 Hz"?
🇸🇴...
432hz ??? Don’t give away the secrets dude. If everybody tuned to 432hz... I guess we’d all be in harmony. It’s a rabbit hole that’s worth going down for any musician. It deals with the frequency’s and the effect on the human body. At this point, we should also talk about the 1. Another music secret. Empathizing the 1.
it is a rabbit hole. It's all very interesting, i've been there myself, but let me burst your bubble. Hz measures vibrations a second. A second is an measurement of time based on the earths rotation around its axis and orbit of the sun. It all seems self consistent, but on a universal level, seconds are an ARBITRARY measurement based only on earth's movement. There is no universal unit of time that a second represents. so a Hz is not related to an ultimate universal truth. Yes I'm aware of the geometry and maths that make the whole thing seem like a universal secret. It's sadly wishful thinking and a dead end. 432hz tuning does sound cool, however, but so does any arbitrary unorthodox amount of down tuning. You can try this for yourself and see. Anyway, I hope that is helpful and might help you not to waste time perusing the 432hz tuning/sacred geometry thing.
@@Tasmanaut Wow!! You are a rare bird. You seem to understand resonance and it’s powerful effects. I have a kindergarten understanding of this topic. I do understand that frequency can be a deep rabbit hole. Breaking glass?? Crumbing a building?? Cuban embassy attack on US delegates?? Resonance is a huge topic that one would need to study years to truly comprehend. ….frequency is only one part of music. Timing is also another deep rabbit hole. James Brown emphasized the 1. Pay attention to a JB tune and you’ll notice it to. Emphasize the one is pure magic.
@@Melo7849 I think i'm detecting sarcasm. I'm not disagreeing that extremely interesting things can be done with resonance, only that hz is an arbitrary measurement because it involves seconds, and seconds are an arbitrary division of time based on the earths rotation and orbit that isn't a magical universal constant measure of time, thereby dispelling the idea that musical tunings can be linked to some sort of sacred geometry. The mathematics involved when using A =432hz are beautiful and it was extremely compelling for me until I had this debate with someone that made me realise a second is not a universal constant. There are many interesting areas of this sort of stuff, i'm only suggesting a=432 being a bit of a dead end. Pythagorean temperament is a pretty interesting topic as well. I'm no expert, I just thought I had discovered the holy grail one day with this stuff until I realised I hadn't
Haunting, seems like Texas is closer to Afghanistan than I thought.
Do a Texan enjoy Hicks? He does good up Appalachia , just sayin
I enjoy the hell out of him. I’m a rancher in south Tx.
Howdy from Arkansas I love the music partner if I had good money to pay you I would around a bond fire