Darktown Strutter's Ball - Blair Street Mugwumps.mpg

The Blair Street Mugwumps from Eugene, Oregon performing Darktown Strutter's Ball on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin on Sept. 1, 2010.

[@TheHokumHighRollers]

I can’t watch this without a huge smile on my face. This was the best highlight of my life. I love you Shaney, Karla, Joby and Baylin. Por Vida

[@williamelliott3266]

love the guy on the washboard, he had me in stitches.

[@x-75hurricane65]

My favourite rendition of this wonderful old (1917) number is Alberta Hunter's version which she recorded in 1978, at the age of 83! on her comeback album Amtrak Blues...so sultry in the intro and full of lively rhythm throughout.

[@jojobacon]

Brilliant! They are all such accomplished musicians and the percussionist is an act all on his own!

[@rainbow8maple]

This is the most awesome thing I have heard in a long time!

[@ronniechilds2002]

Love the banjo sound. Washboard dude really good. Overall just tremendously entertaining.

[@michaelniemann6110]

This group is really entertaining! I loved watching the guy play the rub board.

[@semfedd5561]

Мне 78. У Вас отличная музыка, а исполнение превосходное, непосредственное, неповторимое.Слушаешь Вас и жить хочется дальше. Спасибо, ребята!

[@lesliejean43]

What Fun!! Could you hear me clapping?? and there is Mr. Hokum...Jason Lawrence!

[@angelamichelson8934]

Just looked up how to make a Lager-phone & stumbled upon you guys, so great & heaps of fun to listen to and watch. Now l wanna make a wash-board doovy & dust off my kazoo. Awesome guys!!

[@animamagna3077]

The band gives the sense of authenticity.

[@bohemian46]

Great playing.. excellent bass and washboard.

[@peterclement]

fabulous jug band music! 10/10

[@scoutniagara]

Great job to all, but especially the percussionist. ;)

[@bunskilabonskiwashtubfun9841]

This is a very fine example of a great jug band! I hope the tip jar was full!

[@OeditpusRex]

MORE! :D Love the bassist's garters, too. :)

[@zennor_man]

Just loved this....what a heap of fun...

[@dufus2273]

that bass player's got it all shakin'.

[@richardcorysghost]

Great jug band sound! Greetings from Ireland

[@karlgreenblatt1477]

richardcorysghost slainte

[@adesign101]

Fun! So glad jug band music is returning!

[@fatskeleton27]

Return of the well playing musicians!

[@ronniechilds2002]

DANG! They're great! Very entertaining. And other commenters here are correct--the washboard dude is a riot, and quite musical.

[@michaelshevelev8738]

The percussion is crazy wonderful 🎉

[@michaelshevelev8738]

5:37 May I join in, I have a ukulele!

[@jamesedmonds926]

Sippin whisky to this number !!!

[@Ellenslife851]

Just love street performers

[@celestin1984]

I'm not American and I barely understand the songs but this type of music appeals to me for some reason. Maybe because it featured in a lot of my childhood cartoons. I especially like the kazoo and the bells

[@skidooomaas4296]

Wonderful! Music starts at 1:00

[@richardtretler6336]

America has a history which includes legalized slavery followed by legalized racism. It is who we are. We should not hide from our history, rather we should face it learn from it and move ahead. We no longer endorse slavery or racism. This music, this uniquely American art emerged from the oppressed African-American community of New Orleans of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Gospel, ragtime, swing, jazz, country and western, rock and roll, all grew out of this invaluable contribution. Play the music, celebrate it, be grateful for it, and acknowledge that what truly emblemizes the greatness of America is not the flag or monuments, it is the fact that we have outgrown much of our darker past and we continue to strive to be better.

[@craigmitchell2836]

Well put.

[@davidfelber]

Shelton Brooks. Canadian-born African American composer. This was written in 1917, I think. LOVE it.

[@michaelshevelev8738]

May I join you? I have a ukulele!

[@ludditeclown638]

Are you kidding? Along with the washboard the gutbucket is driving the whole rhythm. It's perfectly audible.

[@barbaramassey3142]

Oh, yes, love it. The Jelly roll blues .....

[@ManuelRCrespo]

I like a lot. Good musicians

[@stevenkoehler6018]

Very well done!

[@heinzie5]

omg the washboard guy

[@zhubajie6940]

My grandma's favorite.

[@hardcoredemise]

Eugene oregon we love our scene

[@peteyb8556]

I love the bike horn lol 📣

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Amazing. I guess the band themselves didn't post this but just in case they ever see it, might I recommend megaphones. Just regular acoustic megaphones of course, not electric ones. Singers used them before they had microphones. You'd sound very old timey. I love a real washtub bass BTW.

[@odin6667]

Dude with the washboard kills it!! He the lead of that band for sire

[@phreespeech7768]

How does the washboard player keep his thimbles secure. While my thimbles fit well on my fingers, I still have to duck tape them on to secure, otherwise the rigorous activity of working the board would send them flying. Whats the secret I dont seem to know?

[@AlexanderHostofferOFMCap]

best thing i e'er heard this side o' mississippi...

[@konnorkuznetsov1035]

Man's rockin a boater!

[@MrElmira123]

Jug band music is on it's way back baby!!

[@edbielicki8404]

bravo@zulu great music

[@whiskeycreek9264]

Jug Band Music. Its a mixture of dixieland, ragtime, blues and old-time music basically. Check out the Memphis Jug Band for some great stuff from the 20's.

[@boyneworleans]

Them cats getting down!

[@bobu5213]

That ragtime!

[@rnrzakon]

Best ! I like !

[@Rachels123]

the washboard guy.

[@chiefcrowtheflatearthworms3259]

Love me the mugwumps

[@randomgaming6808]

Gut bass player looks like Meg white 😂

[@jesseserna8424]

I love this...it's like I lived it before ...wait what I say..idk..but I'm smiling ...1912 .past life 😉

[@juanmartino955]

Genial! Súper!!!

[@RoyFive]

This is where I should be!!!

[@casanova2232]

Happy sounds blessings 🤗

[@briankane6547]

Haven't see a Tea-chest base for YONKS! Cuss, she can't half "throw them around". :¬O

[@dingusdingus2152]

Concerto for kazoo and orchestra

[@BobWarnerBarn]

Nice , You people!

[@zedrummer0]

What kind of style of music is this technically? I discovered it after looking up trad jazz and dixieland music. But I like it a lot!

[@disc1513]

Fun sound

[@AlixTatum]

Mean ass washboard

[@CdeezGutsB]

Hahaha! How cool!

[@ToolinAround]

looks like something out of a 30s cartoon

[@bendummitt888]

Dig it !

[@AngusLiedtke]

this is fucking cool

[@keithvirden]

5 people don't appreciate awesome.

[@forgotMyUsername100]

music starts at 1:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZobPfqh6fMmesMU

[@flagwanker6346]

Now that is repeat IS a washboard player

[@thebritishbushman8389]

Cool while, Cool was still luke warm

[@semfedd5561]

Класс!!

[@RONDANable]

what's that bass instrument's name?

[@someeggs7367]

Ron Leibovich teachest/washbucket bass.

[@LordQueezle]

I've heard it called a gutbucket as well.

[@foreshadow2120]

"Tea Chest," a poor man's bass., a pole is not fixed to the chest and the string is attached from the top of the pole (broomstick) to the Tea chest, the sound is created in many ways by pulling and stretching the string. A very cheap good fun musical instrument.

[@skummisrocker]

☺️

[@flagwanker6346]

Lady in front centre is wearing black pants

[@harryoakley]

Great stuff - pity about the lethargic audience; I had expected rather more enthousiasm from the people of Madison, Wisconsin....

[@1canyonguy]

starts @ 1:02

[@bornwithawoodenleg]

Skip to 0:58.

[@AlixTatum]

you must not like the washboard that much huh?

[@centfisk]

:)

[@larryasbury6218]

bring this to kansas

[@briankane6547]

*****

[@LittleLulubee]

Sounds messy

[@johnolson5538]

Wow, look at the vintage Hipsters in their natural habitat playing old minstrel tunes.

[@kateamara9874]

Odd song for such a liberal anti racist community , talking about "darktown" strutter's ball , but nonetheless a cool song I was sung to as a kid. Listen to Hoagy Carmichael's version also.

[@TrollonymousFU2]

They probably don't even realize where this song came from or what it means, because the same thing happened to me. While about to sing "Black and Blue" at a gig here in Seattle an older bandmate informed me that it was an old minstrel show tune and that I should just do it instrumental instead. I didn't believe him, but then when I was about to sing the chorus it dawned on me what "I'm white inside but I can't hide my face" really meant, and my own face turned beet red and I didn't finish the tune. I think that's the case with a lot of people doing these old tunes, since it's not always obvious that the lyrics are racist.

[@oldgoat381]

Lol, you can sing words to a song you love the tune of and unless there's specifically offensive terms, people usually don't care. I sing Big Bad Bill the way Ry Cooder plays it, with the line "brown skinned woman" and no one bats an eyelid

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Learn something: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Brooks

[@elvisthunders3529]

Darktown Strutters Ball was written by a black man. I think it was the guy who also wrote Yellow Dog Blues. Sheldon Brooks sounds right.

[@LUCG]

James W: Yes, "Black and Blue" is about racism. But not racism between white against black. It is a lament for a girl leaving a black guy for a less black guy, because of his color. So racism about "dark black" against "light black". To prevent a storm: I AM a black guy. Discrimination for color is everywhere. Light people against their darker countrymen can be found in India, Indonesia, all America's, Africa, etc. Amongst the white people the blonds are the "upper class" while the redheads are the "paria's". Will we ever learn??

[@Delguerrero]

I like it but it makes me sad to see that women are playing in the band and being out in the streets like that when they really should be home taking care of their husbands, children and doing their womanly duties.

[@terryofford4977]

Hey Ya gotta be a Jokin' LOL! They sound a great and talented group, to look atoo, a double bonus. Wish there was music like this in Australia.

[@terryofford4977]

Del Guerro, You sound as tho' you are a Muslim or at best, someone who belongs in an ancient society.How on earth can you suggest that a woman's place is taking 'care' of the husband and kids and domestic chores, time you became a modern, democratic individual rather then someone locked into yester years. Meantime Many ladies are professional musicians,singers etc and the world is a much better place for it.

[@terryofford4977]

wheres_ walmart: You portray yourself as a foul mouthed uneducated individual, if you are able to spell more a couple of words, please explain how you feel that my comment is stupid. IF you are a female, you should have a sensible attitude toward any females who play along with the guys, and hey, what about Bessie Smith, Billie Halliday, Ella Fitzgerald. You are jealous perhaps because you lack skills .

[@terryofford4977]

I guess I've just been edited, people don't like learning the truth. IF you read my script,I don't condemn ALL Muslims, (I note the spelling differences,Moslim, Moslem, Muslim,depends which school of English one uses as I had imagined,you 'pen pen name covers your gender, but I felt that you are one of the NEW females,anti male, anti everything of value, p[ossibly one of the raving gender issue types, who have nothing else in their miserable existence. Grow up lady.

[@terryofford4977]

?????? your poor example of English grammar suggests that you are an ignorant, foolish frustrated individual.Age has nothing to do with the expressions offered." Like, ya know worra means like?" etc.,must be a dumb teeny bopper.