"Boil them Cabbage Down," Hicks Kinfolk & My New Banjo | Banjo Q&A

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"Boil them Cabbage Down," Hicks Kinfolk & My New Banjo | Banjo Q&A
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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.

[@mattgoodmangoodmanlawnmowi2454]

Tom & brother Dickie Smothers’ favorite song.
Got love in my ❤️ for you brother.
-Matt’s dad

[@8THKY]

If you don't already have it, get the book "America's Instrument". It has the most comprehensive banjo history of any book on the subject. You'll love it.

[@8THKY]

And I just saw the video where you have it. Lol.

[@CliftonHicksbanjo]

Good book!

[@notjustanybeth]

There is a short film available online called The Fiddlers of James Bay (1980). You might have come across it already, but other people may be interested, too. It features Ray Spencer and Bob McLeod. :)

[@KenneyCmusic]

Great documentary. I'm Cree Metis. Very rich fiddle tradition. There's another great documentary you should check out called Medicine Fiddle about Metis fiddlers.

[@notjustanybeth]

@@KenneyCmusic Thanks! I will check it out!

[@SM-ff3kd]

I enjoyed your performance.

[@uncommonsensewithpastormar2913]

That Boil them Cabbage Down has 3 chord, European harmony is not evidence that the song was not African in origin. All it means is that it evolved over time in America with European influences. Are there any old time banjo songs that are purely African in its influences? I kind of doubt it.

[@CliftonHicksbanjo]

The banjo itself is not "purely African." The early gourd banjos all had European-derived fingerboard and tuning pegs.

[@aidanvansuetendael4948]

Hi Clifton, thanks for the video. what's the name of the song you played in the beginning? I'd like to look up some more words for it.

[@CliftonHicksbanjo]

"Wild Bill Jones" gDGCD. That is George Gibson's version out of east Kentucky. He plays it on his 2000 album Last Possum up the Tree and you can find me playing it here on youtube or at cliftonhicks.bandcamp.com

[@mattgoodmangoodmanlawnmowi2454]

Different tonal scales then. Not your father’s 440 C