This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 This old tune from the mid-1960s hadn’t been played in The Flood band room in more than a decade or so, but when it dropped in at last week’s rehearsal, it fit the moment as comfortably as a good old shoe.
 

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 You know when you’re driving in your car and surfing the stations on your radio, each one offering something bright and different. 

 
That always reminds us of a Flood rehearsal, as the band drifts from some old ’50s rock tune to a blues to a Dylan song to maybe…. well, listen here as Randy Hamilton reinvents this century-long tune, turning it into something as fresh and sweet as a summer breeze.

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood

 There are few sure things nowadays, but one thing we can guarantee is that somewhere in the Mountain State this song is being sung, whistled, hummed or at least thought of about every 15 minutes today. Happy West Virginia Day, y’all!

 

"This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood"

 We just barely had a quorum on this particular evening — Sam and Jack were still on vacation — but Danny, Randy and Charlie held down the fort and, as we say around here, whenever three or more gather in its name, it’s The Flood.

 

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 It’s kinda hard to get a quorum in the band room when summer travel season rolls around. In fact, it’s been three weeks now since all five of us have been together.

 Here, from that session, was our bon voyage to each other.

 

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 The Flood has gone fully folkie on this one. Jack has switched from his snare and brushes to his fiddle and Charlie’s on the five-string. 

 
We’re paying tribute to Dave Van Ronk’s signature tune, which itself was built round a children’s play party song that known throughout the South for more than a century.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Nothing gets us all the the same page faster than a good old jazz standard from the 1930s.