This channel was started by Corrin Strong and Howard Appell, two former journalists who worked together on a weekly newspaper in Geneseo, New York. Corrin owned and served as Publisher and Editor of The Lake and Valley Clarion from 1989-2007 and Howard worked as a reporter there from 1995-2005. Both have a life-long interest in music.

Some of their other videos can be seen on their Rumble channel of the same name.Because of their strong political views, many of their videos can not be posted on YouTube, or in some cases, edited versions are posted here on YouTube, with the uncensored version posted on Rumble.

As of Aug. 2022, Howard's Health did not permit him to continue making videos. As of December 2024, the name of the Channel was changed to "The Clarion Call" to match a column of that name that Corrin started in the newspaper in 1989 and has written continuously on various platforms for the last 35 years. The column is now on Substack.