Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott - My Ohio Home 1928

During the Depression, lack of money and technology did not stop folks from making great music. Take this duo who put on a porch concert with a ukulele, washboard & kazoo. A teapot becomes a horn, a wooden tube creates an added acoustic element while the infectious rhythm keeps it swingy.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Music
• ukulele
• kazoo
• washboard
• skiffle
• folk
• 1930's
• swingy

[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!

[Bakuninite87]

@TheBlood2pay Huh ?

[MrJnobianchi]

@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.

[marselglass]

I LOVE THIS.

[alligatordevil]

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

[rasputinsghost]

ukulele and washboard ftw!

[n64wilbert]

Wow!!!

[edt558]

I could listen to this all day. Thanks for putting it up!

[pfefferrucken]

Great vid. Thanks for this.

[BordiniBlues85]

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

[busessuck1]

@6vector6 actually in the twenties the whole jug band craze was a nostalgic thing that was popular at the time... like cannon's stompers and memphis jugband were doing better than most orchestras, so these were probably proffessional musicians being filmed