Thursday, November 25, 2010

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a Thanksgiving Eve kazoo free-for-all.

Twenty-seven people in one room. Pamela comes in with a baggie of kazoos. Orchestrated chaos ensues.

That was last night at the jam session. It being the night before Thanksgiving, the crowd included friends coming from as far away as New York and Washington and as near as across town and from down around the block. Good friends… always something to be thankful for. Click here for the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features Michelle Walker on a Erroll Garner standard.

Flood co-founder Dave Peyton is bit under the weather right now and has not been able to attend the weekly jam sessions lately, and last night the guys were especially missing him.

So, knowing how Dave's always been such a fan the great Johnny Mathis, Michelle Walker led us on a special musical get-well card for our old spiritual leader and kazoo guru. Hurry back, Brother Dave -- without you we get all, uh, misty... Click here for the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a great old Hoagy Carmichael tune.

The Flood has an abiding love for Carmichael's work. Sometimes nothing fits the mood better than one of Hoagy's ballads, and last night was such a night.

At a lull in the usual rowdy jugband action, Joe Dobbs eased into "Georgia on My Mind." On the break, we turned it over to Jacob Scarr for a couple of sweet choruses on the guitar before handing it back to Joe's fiddle, and in the process, made a memory.Click here for the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features a re-polarized jugband tune from the '30s.

Our hero, Hudson Woodbridge -- known to millions as Tampa Red -- recorded his tune called "No Matter How She Done" in Chicago in 1932.

Sixty or 70 years, The Flood picked it up and flipped the polarity on the old number, doing it as "Any Way She Done," but, hey, that don't matter. Any way you do it, it's still Tampa Red's baby! Click here for the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.