Stanley & Ray Hicks: Roving Gambler (1982)
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- Stanley Hicks and his first cousin Ray perform "Roving Gambler" (which Stanley calls "Roamin' Gambler"). Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at Ray's home at Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, North Carolina, September 8-9, 1982. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [03.17.36]
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My relatives. I remember visiting their house when I was a little girl in the early 80’s. Love these videos. ❤️
Ties to my family's story also the Proffitts
can you imagine this not being caught on film? one of my all time favorite videos ever!
Cool!
What I would give to have hung out with these fellows. 💖💯
The Hicks house burned down this past Tuesday (May 25, 2021). What a loss and now even more valuable that Lomax captured this.
This was filmed on Ray Hick's porch. Ray and Stanley were cousins.
Truly mesmerizing to listen
LEGENDS! no other words needed. I just wish my kids could have met these guys. They still love 'em.
Back in the 1980's I was student at Appalachian State University. Stanly agreed to make a banjo for my friend Pete. Pete and I ended up spending a lot of time on Mr Hick's front porch. What a great memory and I'm happy to have found this video.
There is something about this tune that just really takes me out of body and even time. Can't even explain but thanks infinitely for this video. Amazing footage.
As one with a significant Appalachian family history, videos like these are simply treasures to cherish. Much of my family heralds from the same area of North Carolina and later migrated into Eastern Kentucky. When I watch these videos it transports me to a time that I never lived to know but which, in many ways, defines me. There are snippets of all my people in those shown in these videos. This is much more than simply folk music or period music. These are the tunes that were sung and played by my ancestors on those same porches in front of those same small clapboard houses jammed deep into hollers and surrounded by steep hills. I hear their voices and see their smiles in each and every one of these people. It is a moving and emotional experience for me. Thank you, Alan Lomax.
These are the treasures I would love to have experienced.
Goddamn that instrument sounds amazing
Priceless. Would loved to have spent time on the porch listening!
happy new year 21
happy semi-late new year 22 to ya
Thank you for the identification!
Lovely... x
cool music , just love folk music, i write about my life friends and my city Sunderland and the northeast of england in general, cheers The Makem Folk Singer
Thank you for sharing this lovely video. I have been teaching myself to play the dulcimer. Its a dying art --
This is so precious !!!!
Thanks for sharing this. Nice.
Dear uploader , that hit the spot . thank you
A few years ago Charlie Glenn took me and my gf to visit David Hicks, Stanley's son, played this exact dulcimer and spent a memorable time visiting the Hicks home, Ray's old home, Frank Profitts old home and the back roads that weaved all around "the Old" Beech Mountain.
Ray doesn't know what to do with his hands 👏🙏
I know that Ray's porch had the red and white star on the porch ceiling as shown in this video.
Another great video by AlanLomaxArchive! Thanks so much! I guess this was on Stanley's porch, not Ray's. Been to both.
However, Stanley was not Ray's brother. Ray would say that Stanley was his "first double cousin." One of Ray's sisters, Bessie, was married to Frank Proffit.
I'm a Proffitt also. Ironically the original spelling of our last name was Prophet. The family line started here with Sylvester Prophet/Proffitt he was a rebel soldier from the battle of Preston in Europe. He came here alone in 1716. He received a sizable land grant around 1738. Father to most u.s Proffitts /Prophet's
Sounds fine gentlemen! Wished Stanley could have made a video on how to make one of his Mountain Banjo`s. Taint nothing on youtube that goes into any detail on it.
Dan D. Dirges I have the actual blueprints and plans on how to build a stanley hicks banjo. I’m friends with Charlie Glenn who worked with Stanley to perfect the design
one of the Foxfire books has his blueprints and info on how to build one
Well I can tell you one thing, the head on the one my gramma had was made from house cat skin. It was made by Stanley Hicks, loved playing it when I was there. Unfortunately it got inherited by my worthless uncle.....😢
Never thought about how dulcimer and veena are so similar. For tthe past year or so I've been listening to a bunch of Chitraveena Ravikiran. First time in years I've heard a dulcimer and had never noticed/thought about the drone it's got to it
hey amigos ¿ como se llama ese instrumento de musica??? tanks, saludos
Dulcimer I think.
Anybody know what his dulcimer was tuned to?