Clifton Hicks - Wild Bill Jones

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"WILD BILL JONES; DADGAD:This tune is played on a 1923 trap door Gibson guitar banjo with a 14 inch head tuned to standard pitch with a capo at the second fret. The sixth string is a second D string, tuned in unison with the fourth, which gives the instrument a droning sound. I traded for my first guitar banjo when I was about fifteen. It was a Vega Whyte Laydie, a very unusual and expensive instrument for the area. Willard Collins told me he had a guitar when he was a boy. When I asked how he tuned it, he said "Aw, just ever which a way." I don't know exactly when I first learned this song. I do remember that one of Shade Amburgey's sons played it for me not long after I started learning banjo." - George Gibson, Last Possum up the Tree.

I went out on one day, just walking around,
When I met up with that Wild Bill Jones,
He was walking and talking with my own true love,
And I bid him for to leave her alone.

Oh he said my age is a twenty-two,
Much too old to be controlled,
I drew my revolver all from my side,
And destroyed that poor boy's soul

Oh he fell to the ground, and gave one dying moan,
Said oh darling I will leave you alone.

Well get out your long necked fifth
And we'll all get on a spree,
For today was the last of that Wild Bill Jones,
And tomorrow will be the last of me.
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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.