This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie tells about a special gig we have this Saturday night.

We’re so happy to be invited back to play again at Huntington’s newest music festival, the Jewel City Jamboree, down at Harris Riverfront Park.

We’re set to play Saturday night at 6, but come early! Our friends Wiley Dew play at 4 and then good buddy Rob McNurlin and his Beatnik Cowboys are on stage at 5. It’s going to be a great weekend of music down by the river side!

Here’s a tune The Flood will be including in our 60-minute set. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie tells about a special gig we have next week..

We’re thrilled to be invited to play at Bahnhof, Huntington's hottest new restaurant at 745 7th Avenue. If you've been planning to check out the venue everyone's talking about -- or if you're ALREADY a Bahnhof fan -- come on out for this special Tuesday night, May 23, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Weather permitting, we'll be pickin' on the patio! If the weather gods don’t cooperate, we’ll be inside. Either way, we’ll have a ball. And you will too if you join us.

We might even have a special guest. Who? The hint is in this tune! Enjoy. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie is a status report on a song that's been in the works since last year.

The fascination with the American Civil War continues a century and half after Appomattox. We've got it too.

About a year ago, Paul Martin brought us this tune -- "The Last Time (You'll See Jenny)" -- and we've been listening as the arrangement grows and evolves each week. Here's our latest take on the song as recorded at last night's weekly rehearsal. That's Paul singing the lead and everyone else helping out on the harmonies and the solos. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a little summertime jam

We just barely had a quorum for last night's rehearsal. Suddenly, sicknesses of assorted stripe have struck us.

But as we say around here, wherever two or more gather in its name, it is The Flood, and last night we had two plus two, which is just enough for some pre-summertime fun. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features arrangements while you wait!

One of the things I love about rehearsing each week is that, for better or worse, we all begin to think alike … and, hey, mostly that's for the better!

Now, all day yesterday, I had a great old Ivory Joe Hunter tune stuck in my head, his 1950 hit song called "I Almost Lost My Mind." I started playing it last night at the practice session and, within minutes, an arrangement started coming to together.

Michelle and Randy began finding great harmony vocals, Sam fell into a just natural harmonica groove, while for Doug… well, it brought back fond memories for Doug, of when he did that song with the bands he played with as a teenager when the song was new and the hottest tune on the radio. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a selection of fiddle tunes.

Doug Chaffin has worn so many different hats in this band. When he joined up nearly 20 years ago, he played that driving upright bass behind the big guns of Joe Dobbs and Chuck Romine, Dave Peyton and Sam St. Clair.

Later, when Dave Ball and then Randy Hamilton stepped in on bass, Doug moved to mandolin, trading licks with our young guitar wiz Jacob Scarr. After Jacob had to leave us to go to college, Doug added sweet guitar solos to his regular contributions.

Lately, with the sad loss of our long-time bandmate Joe Dobbs, Doug's been dusting off his fiddle so well. Let's hear a few fiddle tunes from recent weeks. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a preview from a show we'll be playing this weekend.

The Flood will be out this Saturday night for a big benefit concert at Route 60 Music Co. in Barboursville to help fill the shelves of the Facing Hunger Food Bank. Admission to the show will be three cans or boxes of nonperishable food (or at least a five dollar donation.)

We'll be playing songs from our new CD, "Live, In Concert," as well as some new things we've been working lately. The show starts at 7:30 Saturday night at 60 Peyton St. in Barboursville.

Here's one of tunes we're working up for the evening. Click to hear the tune.