From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features an oh-so-beautiful Roy Harvey ballad called… uh, "We've Got Moonshine in Those West Virginia Hills."

Flood buddy Rose Marie Riter, a regular at our Wednesday night jam sessions, heads up our ministry of laughter and general tomfoolery. Miz Rose brought her brother and niece to last night's jam session and, at one point in the evening she requested this number, perhaps as a kind of instruction for the uninitiated. Brother Dave Peyton was on hand and happy to do the honors. 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.

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a pair of tunes for the Christmas season.

First we turn it over to Dave Ball -- to us, he's known as "Bub" -- for a seasonal chuckle: a twisted Christmas parody from the great Bob Rivers. Bub even came prepared for his tune with a few visual aids he could pull from his pockets at key moments. Of course, you can't see them on an audio podcast, but you can hear our reaction, so, hey, let your imagination take over.

Later in the evening, The Flood's good buddy, Mike Smith, dropped in to favor us with a beautiful a cappella rendition of one of our all-time favorite carols of the season. Happy holidays, everybody! 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.

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a tune reborn because of Michelle Walker's new harmony part.

One of the fun things about our weekly jam sessions is that there are often surprises. For instance, for years The Flood has used a Jimmy Reed piece from 1959 -- "You Got Me Runnin'" -- as a simple little warm-up tune, without thinking much about it. However, recently, Michelle came up with an interesting harmony part for the vocals and suddenly it's like a new brand new tune for us. 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.

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a fiddle tune that became an international hit.

New Yorker Jay Ungar wrote "Ashokan Farewell" in 1982 and for nearly a decade, the sweet waltz, written in the style of a Scottish lament, was known mainly only to Jay's fellow fiddlers. But then in 1990s, filmmaker Ken Burns used it as the title theme of his Civil War series on PBS and suddenly the tune was known around the world.

The song's always been a late-night favorite at the Flood jam sessions, especially when, like last night, Doug Chaffin moves over to guitar to partner with Joe Dobbs' beautiful fiddle. 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.