From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features some fancy picking by a visitor to our Wednesday night gathering.

Joe Dobbs has been knowing guitar player Jesse Smith of Wadsworth, Ohio, near Akron, for five or six years now, but last night was the first time some of the rest of us got to meet him. On his way to the Cabin Fever Pickin' Party in Hampton, Va., Jesse came with Joe to sit with us and the finger-picking phenom sweetened up everything we played.

Here are a couple of samples, starting with one of The Flood's jugband standards. Then, later in the evening, Joe and Jesse launched into an especially fine version of "When You're Smiling." Hey, you had us smiling all evening, Jesse. Hurry back! Hear the two tunes.

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