Clifton Hicks - Hills of Mexico - Roscoe Holcomb 

It's true!

Now that was well done!

Thanks, Keith. I call it upstroke or "up-picking." For years I played this piece in a more relaxed two-finger picking style until Martha Spencer of White Top, VA told me once that she preferred my up-picking.

Clifton Hicks Do you consider it the same as Pete Seeger style?

I think it is very similar--same basic concept. Although I have never read Seeger's 1950s banjo tutor people often use the terms "up-picking," "upstroke" and "Seeger style" interchangeably. I prefer "up-picking" or "upstroke" as these terms are more descriptive and, as much as we all admire Pete, he did not invent the style.

Got most of these lyrics from Roscoe Holcomb; the verse about the ambush is just something I made up.

Thanks for the kind words, Boogie. Banjo is tuned to fDGCD, relative.

It's a 1980s "Goya" that originally belonged to Mr. Creed Birchfield of the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers. I think they were made either in Europe somewhere or in Japan. It's a surprisingly good banjo considering it's not American.

+Henri Frelin Thanks. I don't play "clawhammer" I just play the banjo.

Why?

I think if you have to ask why.............

I am glad you fixed it.