This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Some of these old tunes could stand a little revision. Last week as we began this old Charlie Poole number, our Danny Cox proposed a bit of judicious editing to tidy up the grammar. Check it out.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Some songs are like old friends. This old Paul Overstreet-Don Schlitz tune that Keith Whitley made famous is certainly like that. 

 
We hadn’t played it in six months or more, and then one sultry night last August, it strolled back into the band room like it had never left. Danny Cox kicked off those first chords, then Randy Hamilton stepped up with the opening lyrics and… well, take a listen…

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Bob Dylan once famously spoke in a 1960s song about “a thousand telephones that don’t ring.” But that’s hardly a problem for us in our new millennium. 

 
On the contrary, we’re all walking around with phones in our pockets that are apt to sound off at the most inopportune moments. Like in the middle of this other Bob Dylan song we were playing at last week’s rehearsal when Sam St. Clair’s phone chimes in. 

But our Sam’s an especially cool lad, so you’d expect even his phone’s ringtone to offer something special. And it does. Wait for it: a nifty xylophone audition right about mid-song!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 More than 90 years ago, this was one of the last tunes recorded by our great hokum heroes Georgia Tom and Tampa Red. 

 
But while Tom and Red decided to go their separate ways in 1932, their songs just roll on and on. Here’s one of our favorites.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 We have a new old saying around here: When it doubt, let Danny do it!  

 
Danny Cox has an abiding love for the works of Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins and his take on “Drive In” from a recent rehearsal beautifully displays those intersecting energies.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 The sing-along — “if you know it, sing it!” as we say around here — is fundamental to folk music. 

As the folk music guiding spirit, Pete Seeger, once said, “I rather put songs on people’s lips than in their ears.” 

 
And for us, there’s no better sing-along than this tune, which the newest Floodster Jack Nuckols brought us about a year ago.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Danny Cox and Randy Hamilton brought us this tune a year or so ago and as it matures, it just keeps enriching The Flood’s bloodstream. 

 
And it’s right on target to be included on the new album when we start work on that in the coming months. 

It’s an old Doc Watson tune. Here’s the latest take from a recent rehearsal. It’s “Deep River Blues.”