A fine job ! And fine poetic license too. The way that song came about.....We had started this "band" ,but had no songs . We had a photo shoot and I started to play Jesse James .....so we ran with it, the Bushwhacker theme On the way to our 1st gig in Tejas, Jimbo had a book about Jesse's immediate postwar "career" . The book contained one of the dead Anderson photos...you know, the kind of thing you can't look away from . I had been drinkin in some Dock Boggs as well. By the time we got to Dallas, I had that song together for the gig . Little known trivia, when we recorded it , Jimbo played percussion on the jawbone of an ass ....to my knowledge ,this is the only known recording of such . Cheers AYH
As an alcoholic that doesnt sleep much and works a lonely job digging holes in the country side (sussex downs east sussex uk) your music is literally like a new drug lol insane... Youre a beast wtf thankyou mate.
As a moonshiner, your music completes everything.. I cant make a run without clifton hicks pumping out my speakers.. 200 year old sound of my forefathers.
Yep I've been a metal head for 40 of my 46 years and pretty much all I listen to now is old time banjo music and old school Swedish death metal. Got into clifton about 10 years ago right after I heard clarence Ashley's the cuckoo and decided I had to get a banjo. Found clif shortly after that
As hip hop head official, from kmd to m.f.DOOM and everything between it's interesting to think of what mix of ppl that show would be! Cheers All! Clifton!
I blast your music in Cleveland Ohio I probably the only hillbilly around here but hearing the banjo reminds me of home WV.. I miss you Clifton thank you for making Cleveland better for me lol
You truly capture the true spirit of these early tunes Clifton, as they were intended to be. This in itself is precious indeed. You do them so well and as I’ve heard some of these song years ago in the hills of Kentucky. Kind Thanks and many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Sounds like a bit of a modification of bright sunny south. Really cool. Cool to hear a song about Bill Anderson, Quantrill's raiders are one of my favourite parts of American history.
This is the next instrument I need learn to play. I ask a lot of banjo players in Pennsylvania if they know who Dock Boggs is. They don't know and have no clue. So them boys don't get the honor to play with Driftin River. 3 songs I learned to play on guitar. False hearted lovers Blues, Drunkards lonley child, and oh death. You always come out of no where Cliff slap me straight in the head with all this great music. To all the Legends and the Ghost Riders in the Sky. 🤘
Great pickin as always. It may not be a pleasant song but it's good you're keeping it alive. I really like those chairs, they're works of art. They have a beautiful finish and those hand woven seats are wonderful.
I think your version is much better than the South Memphis String Band. Where you place the emphasis within the rhythm gives the tune a bit of underlying menace. I reckon the thought of Bloody Bill coming to town would similarly have carried with it a sense of foreboding for the citizenry! Great song! Great delivery!
Love this song and really enjoy your style !! Simple and relaxing I have got to study the two finger picking . I tried learning the banjo when I was young had a few songs down and just let it go , why I don’t know !!
I have to say , I absolutely love your life! No homo. What im saying is please don't stop sharing with the world. You are awesome! You should do a jam with Hank III
@@sartainja , Bloody Bill was a hillbilly who came out of the woods with blood in his eyes, blood in his eyes to distribute retribution against any and every Yankee he could put in his sights. A lot of people forget that while the Union was waging their moral war to end slavery, they sacked a lot of farms and murdered a lot of innocent non-slave owning civilians of the Southern states in the process. West of the Mississippi in Missouri, guerrilla soldiers like Bloody Bill Anderson and William Quantrill put the fear of God, and put the hurt on the Union big time. Setting things right. Only one Southern General refused to surrender, and never did. He is a hero in Southern Missouri along with Anderson and Quantrill. Jesse James too.
Love what you do Clifton, I’ve been a string instrument player since the age of five, interested in developing my own clawhammer style guitar. Signed up for Patreon with you. Do you accept and respond to emails? What is the best way to communicate with you?
i know i can technically play this in claw hamer. but would it be advisable. ive got the finger version down and the words but then i go to record a video i always make a noticable error in playing or singing. been at this for three afternoons trying to record it after 3 weeks of practice. just wondering what benefit this could get from claw hammer and see it that might make it a bit easier to do a video
Cole Younger wrote an autobiography and made a point about the savagery of war. He says "Gray heads suffered because younger ones had not been noosed..." ...not quite a defense of Bloody Bill, but I do think he gets more than he deserves from the historians.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Clifton! You're a hero man, I love your music! I've never read a biography of Bloody Bill, but authors tend to mention his escapades as a prelude to the James gang. Personally: I like Cole's account best since, while you can tell he's hedging a little to help lighten his jail sentence, you feel like you're getting a genuine account of someone alive at the time.
Ever heard of a “SMBD” which is a South Memphis Beat Down ~ what most people would describe as an “attitude adjustment.” Useful terminology to know if you live in Shelby County, Tennessee.
That's right. I have often sang Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham's "Bravest Cowboy" to this melody. If you listen to Alvin Youngblood Hart sing Bloody Bill Anderson" I think the tuning and melody I think he is in gDGAD or f#DGAD or f#DF#AD--not sure--and the melody is similar to "Drunkard's Lone Child." Since I have already been singing that old cowboy song to that melody for years I just went ahead and put "Bloody Bill" to it. Sounds awesome to me and I hope Hart approves!
I taught my son guitar .... Im going to do my best to save up and get him a banjo I showed him your videos and he cried I asked why his response .... This man has passion
Three hundred thousand Yankees lay stiff in southern dust We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us, They died of southern fever and southern steel and shot I wish it was three million instead of what we got.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo One of my favorite songs. Loved it when they started playing it in the movie The Long Riders. Please keep up the great content sir!
Is it getting hot down South..? You are drinking copious amounts of fluids and you shaved your head... Nice job, reminds me of the melody to Drunkard's Lone Child... is it the same?
I do use both tunings although I prefer dropping the thumb string to f#. My mentor referred to f#DGAD as "German War" tuning and to gDGAD as "Moonshiner" tuning.
![Bloody Bill Anderson - Alvin Youngblood Hart [The Blues Kitchen Sessions]](/img/n.gif)
A fine job ! And fine poetic license too.
The way that song came about.....We had started this "band" ,but had no songs . We had a photo shoot and I started to play Jesse James .....so we ran with it, the Bushwhacker theme
On the way to our 1st gig in Tejas, Jimbo had a book about Jesse's immediate postwar "career" . The book contained one of the dead Anderson photos...you know, the kind of thing you can't look away from . I had been drinkin in some Dock Boggs as well. By the time we got to Dallas, I had that song together for the gig . Little known trivia, when we recorded it , Jimbo played percussion on the jawbone of an ass ....to my knowledge ,this is the only known recording of such .
Cheers
AYH
Cool ❤️
Agreed. His style is heavy and steady. It bleeds all over every one of his songs. His style is definitely music to these busted eardrums.
Woah. This is bad ass finding out the lore behind an amazing song like this. Well done, sir.
As an alcoholic that doesnt sleep much and works a lonely job digging holes in the country side (sussex downs east sussex uk) your music is literally like a new drug lol insane... Youre a beast wtf thankyou mate.
That was one of the most awesome random comments I read and coming from the UK.
@@lonestarstate1981 haha! Why is it an awesome comment? However thanks i guess my friend!
😂I'm from England I totally agree.
Clifton Hicks to me is the meat in the Sandwich 🥪 😊
Keep digging man. Hope you can free yourself sonde day, alcoholism sucks.
Sounds like you need some skrewdriver in your life 🍻🤙
As a moonshiner, your music completes everything.. I cant make a run without clifton hicks pumping out my speakers.. 200 year old sound of my forefathers.
Clifton plays the traditional folk equivalent of Doom Metal, and as an old Metalhead I LOVE this stuff.
As a doom fan, I've really fallen for this stuff (check out a Irish band called lankum for some traditional drone age)
I think all metal old heads will end up here. Good call
@@tattoomiked4612 you are correct im a 52 y/o old school metalhead and Cliftons music is great
Yep I've been a metal head for 40 of my 46 years and pretty much all I listen to now is old time banjo music and old school Swedish death metal. Got into clifton about 10 years ago right after I heard clarence Ashley's the cuckoo and decided I had to get a banjo. Found clif shortly after that
As hip hop head official, from kmd to m.f.DOOM and everything between it's interesting to think of what mix of ppl that show would be!
Cheers All! Clifton!
Keeping these stories alive in song is true history.
This style of banjo is so haunting, really lends to the storytelling.
Thank you for preserving this Nations great folk traditions.
That water looks good
That was moonshine. Jk
I blast your music in Cleveland Ohio I probably the only hillbilly around here but hearing the banjo reminds me of home WV.. I miss you Clifton thank you for making Cleveland better for me lol
I live in upstate NY and about an hour from the city and I do the same. Keep letting folks know there some good music still being made.
That sounded great Clifton! That's a big jug of maybe water.😉 Thank you for your service sir.🇺🇲
Moonshine
Service to who??
@@JosephE-yd6ks the army
@@chris9l913 Fuck the army. Murdering cunts. Fighting for billionaire capitalists. They deserve what they get
Dont get much better than this
Love it. My fathers name is Bill Anderson.
You truly capture the true spirit of these early tunes Clifton, as they were intended to be. This in itself is precious indeed. You do them so well and as I’ve heard some of these song years ago in the hills of Kentucky. Kind Thanks and many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Sounds like a bit of a modification of bright sunny south. Really cool. Cool to hear a song about Bill Anderson, Quantrill's raiders are one of my favourite parts of American history.
As a proud Missourian on the border this makes me happy.
Us 🇨🇱Texans🇨🇱 like
'Ol Bloody Bill too.
Your style of banjo is just fantastic + the US ARMY uniform it is a good damn folks music
I feel the need to draw or bring to life “Bloody Bill”! Your description is pure
I'd like to hear what he could do with "Man of Constant Sorrow".
This is the next instrument I need learn to play. I ask a lot of banjo players in Pennsylvania if they know who Dock Boggs is. They don't know and have no clue. So them boys don't get the honor to play with Driftin River. 3 songs I learned to play on guitar. False hearted lovers Blues, Drunkards lonley child, and oh death. You always come out of no where Cliff slap me straight in the head with all this great music. To all the Legends and the Ghost Riders in the Sky. 🤘
I Come From the "kemper " family..From Lee 's army...Deleware Kemper...this song makes me think of them and what they went thru ..love this
Great pickin as always. It may not be a pleasant song but it's good you're keeping it alive. I really like those chairs, they're works of art. They have a beautiful finish and those hand woven seats are wonderful.
I'm like biggest fan. When I'm so drunk that I can barely type, I always end up listening to Old Leather Stocking. You rock so hard brother.
sorry, all Clifton is old leather to me
I want to learn to play this one
I recognize that era of DCU’s. Looks official. If so, Thanks for your service bud. Keep up the great work.
It’s nice to get some news from the front-lines.
Did Missouri well by this one
Redlegs do this? You'll find 'Em up in Kansas. We goin' up there and set things A'Right!
The Outlaw Josy Wales set things right. Damn right!
I live in the area these rebels ran. Great song and great music
You should do a ballad of popcorn Sutton and his last dam run of likker
You play wicked good banjo bro. My ma and Pa are from Bowling Green mo. I've been to Centralia goin back to visit family
I'm a metal guy, but I love country and bluegrass. You're fantastic bro
54 notches...bad mad indeed. Great take.
Nice.
This is an official "very much enjoyable" stamp from Germany. Do with that what you want.
Hard core! God bless.
This fucker is amazing. My new favourite banjoist/vocalist!
Yeah no doubt! Hands down.
I love this dark backwoods moonshine runnin music
I think your version is much better than the South Memphis String Band. Where you place the emphasis within the rhythm gives the tune a bit of underlying menace. I reckon the thought of Bloody Bill coming to town would similarly have carried with it a sense of foreboding for the citizenry! Great song! Great delivery!
You are a living legend !
I've read a book about the life of ole Bloody Bill. Great tune.
I love the tuning on this. Thanks for sharing and stating the tuning.
I need to find the tab.
I provide the tab for this one at Patreon.com/CliftonHicks
Good music is good music
Love this song and really enjoy your style !! Simple and relaxing I have got to study the two finger picking . I tried learning the banjo when I was young had a few songs down and just let it go , why I don’t know !!
Love this.
I love you Old Leatherstocking
Great man!
I have to say , I absolutely love your life! No homo. What im saying is please don't stop sharing with the world. You are awesome! You should do a jam with Hank III
Thank you for singing song of our Southern heroes. These were men acting revenge read your history folks.
Good stuff......
God Clifton that is dark man! You were great as always.
Jeremy Reagan The song is about Ole Bloody Bill - not actually a Eagle Scout. Tough times called for tough men.
@@sartainja , Bloody Bill was a hillbilly who came out of the woods with blood in his eyes, blood in his eyes to distribute retribution against any and every Yankee he could put in his sights. A lot of people forget that while the Union was waging their moral war to end slavery, they sacked a lot of farms and murdered a lot of innocent non-slave owning civilians of the Southern states in the process. West of the Mississippi in Missouri, guerrilla soldiers like Bloody Bill Anderson and William Quantrill put the fear of God, and put the hurt on the Union big time. Setting things right.
Only one Southern General refused to surrender, and never did. He is a hero in Southern Missouri along with Anderson and Quantrill. Jesse James too.
Lovely ! Enjoy anything covering the civil war!
Starting off with a long pull of ICE WAITER. Decent!
He was a bad man... Hellbound.
I must say I enjoy your version the best ; no disrespect to the So.Memphis fellers.
Love what you do Clifton, I’ve been a string instrument player since the age of five, interested in developing my own clawhammer style guitar. Signed up for Patreon with you. Do you accept and respond to emails? What is the best way to communicate with you?
Bloody bills my hero
FOR THE GOOD OLE REBEL RIDE IN THE SKIES FOREVER QUANTRALS RAIDERS JESSIE JAMES AND BLOODY BILL ANDERSON!
Nice Clifton. Nashville out
Is that a comanche 1-1 cav guide on i was in bandit 6-9 cav fort hood texas
incredible work once more, dear friend. I love relaxing to these songs, it really helps my anxiety. Bless your soul
What a way to play...very nice thank you.
AWESOME
Hey Mr Hicks I was just wondering are you going to do a toutorial of this song
miss you every day wullie ma boy!
Got my DCU and others 1964 to 2004. Great music. Much prefer the older style over bluegrasss. Also Bbryan Bowers and Jean Ritchie fan. Karl
So similar to sugar baby. Nice.
Good pick'n mate!
Awesome
This was great. Thank you
i know i can technically play this in claw hamer. but would it be advisable. ive got the finger version down and the words but then i go to record a video i always make a noticable error in playing or singing. been at this for three afternoons trying to record it after 3 weeks of practice. just wondering what benefit this could get from claw hammer and see it that might make it a bit easier to do a video
Use any style you want. For me, it's easier to finger pick this one.
Great job Cliff 👍
Cole Younger wrote an autobiography and made a point about the savagery of war. He says "Gray heads suffered because younger ones had not been noosed..." ...not quite a defense of Bloody Bill, but I do think he gets more than he deserves from the historians.
Thanks for writing, Scott. Can you recommend a good biography of Bloody Bill?
I will have to look for a copy of Younger's...
@@CliftonHicksbanjo Clifton! You're a hero man, I love your music! I've never read a biography of Bloody Bill, but authors tend to mention his escapades as a prelude to the James gang. Personally: I like Cole's account best since, while you can tell he's hedging a little to help lighten his jail sentence, you feel like you're getting a genuine account of someone alive at the time.
Not saying I'm pickiy ,
But it's a time he feels💪🙏
God bless us all A?🙏💯😇
Hey Clifton do you do a cover of whiskey in the jar?
hope you are feeling better now
Give a lesson on this song I love this song 🤘🤘🖤🍻🍻🍻
Hey there fella we got the same last name! Must be related somewhere back lmao
🔥
The melody itself is similar to wild bill jones by Dock Boggs.
Moving!!
Ever heard of a “SMBD” which is a South Memphis Beat Down ~ what most people would describe as an “attitude adjustment.” Useful terminology to know if you live in Shelby County, Tennessee.
im trying to learn this i need the lyrics
nice job brother
sounds just like drunkards lone child! speaking of which, can you do a tutorial for that?
That's right. I have often sang Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham's "Bravest Cowboy" to this melody. If you listen to Alvin Youngblood Hart sing Bloody Bill Anderson" I think the tuning and melody I think he is in gDGAD or f#DGAD or f#DF#AD--not sure--and the melody is similar to "Drunkard's Lone Child." Since I have already been singing that old cowboy song to that melody for years I just went ahead and put "Bloody Bill" to it. Sounds awesome to me and I hope Hart approves!
Jessie and Frank approve!
I taught my son guitar .... Im going to do my best to save up and get him a banjo I showed him your videos and he cried I asked why his response .... This man has passion
High and tight there brother
if you sip to much out of that jar ; you will become ole bill.
54 Yankees! That's a good haul.
Three hundred thousand Yankees lay stiff in southern dust
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us,
They died of southern fever and southern steel and shot
I wish it was three million instead of what we got.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo One of my favorite songs. Loved it when they started playing it in the movie The Long Riders. Please keep up the great content sir!
Is it getting hot down South..? You are drinking copious amounts of fluids and you shaved your head... Nice job, reminds me of the melody to Drunkard's Lone Child... is it the same?
It's hot as Hell down here.
I do use both tunings although I prefer dropping the thumb string to f#. My mentor referred to f#DGAD as "German War" tuning and to gDGAD as "Moonshiner" tuning.
Oh yes I will play "Frankie" either in fDGCD or f#DEAD. The trouble with the latter is, as you say, that 3rd (E) string usually sounds off.
Yes it is, SC hot as hell at times! Humidity can be brutal! I see those old DCU`S. Brings back some memories Clifton.
Bang up job as usual man.
"He was a bad man" well, that qualifies as understatement of the year ;P
It depends on your point of view. In Missouri Bloody Bill is a hero, a legend.
Deo Vindice.
X
Goddamn good tune.
I know this song.
This great! Is this a traditional ballad or recently written?
Alvin Youngblood Heart made that song around the early 2000s. The melody is much older, see Dock Boggs' "Drunkard's Lone Child."
Man can you put the lyrics in the comments so I can learn them haha
is that moonshine or water'?😏😉🤔
What tuning do you use?
GDGBD Doesn’t seem to match up
Ur rather good on that banjo!
Great tribute too a southern hero bloody bill long live the south and confederacy
How about a song about "i didn't know the gun was loaded?
I think it was a scarf from his relative that was killed (54 notches).
Good shit
I see that Black Flags waving