Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott: My Ohio Home - 1928

[@dorayme66]

It is really great to be able to see this piece of music history in twenty-twelve!

[@KenkadeLinden]

This comment is now history.

[@thesharko1]

Indeed 😅

[@thendrjazz]

Most of the Southern states and the black community there stayed poor throughout the 1920s. A few Southern urban centers like Memphis. Louisville, and Richmond,VA, where Thomas and Scott performed, had enough money to support street musicians that used jugs, washboards etc to make music and earn some money. Richmond was in the Piedmont area where ragtime players like Blind Boy Fuller and Bobby Leecan worked or cane from. That tradition is strong in this cut.

[@JohnBianchi]

@busessuck1 Yes, this is spot on. Jug bands were really big, and this isn't music born of depression-era privation. This was shot a full year before the depression. If you're in doubt that these are pros, watch Eddie Thomas's right hand - split strokes and triplets - classic vaudeville uke playing, and they're playing a jazz tune, not what poor folks in rural counties played at the time. The duo isn't poor south at all, they were from Richmond, VA and have city playing skills. Great stuff.

[@mcrp_]

I was wondering the name of the strumming technique. Thanks 🙏

[@TheClambeard]

awesome.. so much with so little.. so awesome

[@WeirdoVideo]

So much

[@colindominy]

Natural born rhythm. Brilliant footage.

[@BordiniBlues85]

the teapot at 2:20 his hillarious.. but great sound! man! this is awesome... genial

[@jplibert]

Thanks for this video !!! amazing

[@johnnybravo5179]

This totally made me buy a kazoo!!!!!

[@DETROITBULLET]

JUST GREAT !

[@coravisser727]

awesome i am going to buy a washboard hh love this.

[@rockthatuke]

Amazing. I've seen still photos of this performance on the cover of a Columbia CD about Washboard performances, but I had no idea it was from a movie. Thanks so much for sharing it.

[@riverboatjoe4449]

people need to do this more often

[@christiandelgado1255]

Thank god for KZbin

[@alligatordevil]

Best video i've watched lately. Love it!!!

[@DanielEscobar-sl7fq]

Nice kazoo !

[@rasputinsghost]

ukulele and washboard ftw!

[@divingduck1970]

The cigar makes a funny noise!

[@n64wilbert]

Wow!!!

[@DomBianco]

What a great share, I loved this, how did you find this great piece of history? Damn they were good, what a great duo and what a yt friend, thanks for the share, that may be me in a few weeks up on the porch with my gutar case open looking for spare change!

[@MrLuridan]

Better than the crap recorded these days.

[@mabudia4177]

"My woman using my instrument a (washer?)" :D

[@ladytsadventures8033]

"Too wash on."

[@wbnr97.7]

"Don't want no using my instrument to wash on"

[@dazguti]

0:00-0:35, just hilarious!!!

[@ladytsadventures8033]

Back then they didn't have much money because of the depression, so they made up their own instruments, that's how the washboard came about.

[@michaelmorphites6733]

+Lady T. this is recorded in 1928. that's marginally before The Great Depression. so general poverty leads to Jug Band type instrumentation. people were playing teapots etc before the 30s

[@ladytsadventures8033]

Yes that's why I said that in my comment. And I know history.

[@jpb252]

The stock market crashed in OCT 1929 and the depression really didn't get going until 1930 (after the fools passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs), in 1928 when this song was recorded the American economy was booming.

[@michaelmorphites6733]

i thought your wording was a little ambiguous. you may have known what you meant but i didn't. i'm glad you know history. good for you.

[@ladytsadventures8033]

michael morphites sorry about that my comment didn't mean to sound like that. Take care and thanks for the info.

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[@Lamont24012]

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[@roxannahenry4677]

Guys: timing. Get it, use it. Enjoyable anyway.

[@hanseekhoff1093]

He plays fabulous uke, but obviously doesn't know how to tune it....