"She's On the Road Somewhere" (I've Got A Mule To Ride) Banjo Lesson

[@SPayne-vn5od]

I'm married the mule rides me.

[@alancook7174]

Good stuff! Yes, I also urge everyone to support Cliff as well! Every time I turn on the radio and hear the crap from the modern music money machine, I just throw on a CD purchased from Cliff to clear my ears! Thank you Clifton!

[@blainechappell5383]

If you have an internet radio app, listen to WNCW “This Old Porch” from 3pm-6pm on Sundays. It’s nothing but the good old stuff. I’ve actually heard them play a couple of Clifton Hicks’ recordings. It’s a public North Carolina radio station out of Spindale

[@deanwatt]

Look out, Clifton has his "going out clothes" on!

[@patgreene5716]

Where have I been, I've never heard this song thanks for the history and all you do.

[@vinsamson8061]

Superb video again Clifton👌you even timed it bang on when you sang “there she goes” your lady was running away with the dogs!🤘🎶too marks 🤓

[@blainechappell5383]

I continue to say “this is the next song I’m learning.” And I’ll say it again. Side note, my wife tells me she likes when I finger pick songs rather than play overhand

[@CliftonHicksbanjo]

The banjo _usually_ sounds better when fingerpicked.

[@SamHatchSings]

Maybe I'm bad at fingerpicking, but I much prefer overhand or up-picking cause I love the dance rhythm.

[@kristinparish2834]

Great song.

[@clemfandango6897]

My dad gifted his banjo to me this last xmas, still a bit rusty but some of my old tunes are comin back. I need more mountain songs tho, so i guess I'll start listening! I can do drop thumb and the basic frail but im sure there are more techniques.

[@zoysiaguy3757]

This is my favorite song and video you've put out bro awesome

[@dialedinduenorth707]

Damn love that song ..... thank you !!

[@landonshanerthebanjokid5906]

This is great Mr.Hicks great job

[@FlatfootJohnny]

Really great stuff!!

[@we3bus]

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[@PermacultureAppalachia]

Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7, 1898 - February 7, 1971) was an American old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Contemporary folk musicians and performers consider him a seminal figure, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on Harry Smith's 1951 collection Anthology of American Folk Music. Boggs was first recorded in 1927 and again in 1929, although he worked primarily as a coal miner for most of his life. He was "rediscovered" during the folk music revival of the 1960s and spent much of his later life playing at folk music festivals and recording for Folkways Records. Boggs was born in West Norton, Virginia, in 1898, the youngest of ten children. In the late 1890s, the arrival of railroads in central Appalachia brought large-scale coal mining to the region, and by the time Dock was born, the Boggs family had made the transition from subsistence farming to working for wages and living in mining towns. Dock's father, who worked as a carpenter and blacksmith, loved singing and could read sheet music. He taught his children to sing, and several of Dock's siblings learned to play the banjo. In an interview with the folk musician Mike Seeger in the 1960s, Boggs recalled how, as a young child, he would follow an African-American guitarist named "Go Lightning" up and down the railroad tracks between Norton and Dorchester, hoping the guitarist would stop at street corners to play for change. Boggs's version of the ballad "John Henry" was based in part on the version he learned from Go Lightning during this period.[2] He also recalled sneaking over to the African-American camps in Dorchester at night, where he first observed string bands playing at dances and parties. He was enamoured of the bands' banjo players' preference for picking, having previously been exposed only to the "frailing" style of his siblings. Around the time he began working in coal mines, Boggs began playing music more often and more seriously. He learned much of his technique during this period from his brother Roscoe and an itinerant musician named Homer Crawford, both of whom shared Dock's preference for picking. Crawford taught him "Hustlin' Gambler," which was the basis for Boggs's "Country Blues." He also picked up several songs (such as "Turkey in the Straw") from a local African-American musician named Jim White. Boggs probably began playing at parties around 1918.

[@mikegager]

Clifton did you ever get the grandpa hudson recording digitized?

[@CliftonHicksbanjo]

Still waiting on it.