1890s S.S. Stewart "Thoroughbred" Banjo

Banjo Heritage 👉   / cliftonhicks  
In 1872, Sam Stewart was a seventeen-year-old violin student and heir to a family fortune worth several million dollars. However, upon hearing banjo music for the first time (at a minstrel show in Philadelphia), Stewart became obsessed with the instrument, and had soon hired none other than George Dobson to teach him the secrets of the art. By 1878 he was performing regularly, and billing himself as 'The Artistic Banjoist.'

"Until his premature death on 6 April 1898, Stewart remained a commercial and public relations giant. His multifaceted career illustrates how an instrument once marginalized because of its association with the lower classes became iconic of American culture at all levels, and in particular of middle-class pretensions to gentility." - Gura & Bollman, America's Instrument (UNC Press, 1999).

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Clifton Hicks banjo heritage, outlaw old-time music, overhand, clawhammer banjo tablature, two finger tab, thumb lead, 2 finger tableture, frailing and stroke styles plus Appalachian mountain murder ballad hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, Oldtime banjo old time close ups demonstrations blues, waltz, skiffle, tin pan alley, Afro-Caribbean and West African, Cajun zydeco, Métis, Creole, Melungeon indigenous native American music traditions. Folk art, asmr, relaxation, calming, meditation, chill, trance. Mountain music, southern culture, dark folk, murder ballad. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Steve Martin, Unknown Henson, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Riley Baugus, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leroy Troy, JD Crowe, Rising Appalachia, Clarence Ashley, Fred Cockerham, Dwight Diller, Gaither Carlton, John Snipes, Dink Roberts, Clifford Essex, Joe Sweeney, Archibald Ferguson, Samuel Swaim Stewart, Samuel Swain Stewart, Dan Emmett, John Hartford, Picayune Butler, Gus Cannon, Art Rosenbaum, Coon Creek Girls, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Makem, Luke Kelly, Charlie Poole, Ola Belle Reed, BF Shelton, Rhiannon Giddens, Billy Whitlock, Hobart Smith, Samantha Bumgarner, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Dom Flemons, Ralph Stanley, music tutorial, Odell Thompson, Wade Ward, Hedy West, Fred McDowell, poor white trash, Steve Earle, Benjamin Tod, Del McCoury Band, Clifton Hicks, Stanley Hicks, Dee Hicks, Dirk Powell, Enoch Rutherford, dirk powell, Ray Hicks, Mabel Cawthorn, Florie Stewart, Maybelle Carter Family, Uncle Homer Walker, Mississippi John Hurt old time, folk, Riley Baugus, Gillian Welch, trad roots picker redneck songster troubadour minstrel medicine show tent revival hoedown, Americana, Morgan Sexton, David Akeman Stringbean, Lee Sexton, Clyde Troxell, Blanche Coldiron, Black Banjo Songsters, Banjo Bill Cornett, clawhammer banjo heritage music.