From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a funny ballad from old friend, along with some storytelling!

We've not seen our great friend, Mike Smith, for months and months. In fact, since our last get-together, Mike went back home to England to visit with family and friends for three weeks or so. But now he's back in the States and last night he came back to his Flood family.

Mike's quite a musician. In addition to playing a lyrical fiddle, he also stops us in our tracks with his a cappella ballads. Here he takes along on Christy Moore's wonderful song, "A Stitch in Time."

Oh, and stay tuned when the singing's done, because the lyrics inspire Doug Chaffin to tell us a story. Hear 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 the legendary Phyllis Dale with an original composition dedicated to the beautiful Ohio River.

Regular listeners know that a few weeks ago, our dear friend Phyllis came by for a long-overdue visit with The Flood, and on the podcast the next day, we featured a couple of Phyllis's good-time tunes, the kind of numbers with which she used to rock The Delta Queen steamboat, where she was an on-board entertainer for 10 years.

But there's another side to Phyllis Dale too -- the ballad singer and songwriter. Here's another track from that evening. This time Phyllis does her wonderful composition, "She's the Ohio." And listen closely -- that's our good friend Wendell Dobbs sitting in on flute for a lovely solo. Hear 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 sessions features a great old Mississippi John Hurt standard, "Payday."

The Flood has been doing this song for years now. In fact, it's featured on the first CD we recorded a decade ago this summer. But it is still a favorite at the weekly jam sessions, where the tune takes on a different personality, depending on who's sitting in that night.

On this version, we were especially energized because the great guitarist Jesse Smith was on hand, and his stellar finger-pickin' solos took "Payday" to a whole 'nother level! Hear 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 two hot tunes from a wild and wonderful jam session with the legendary Phyllis Dale, the original Red Hot Mama of the Delta Queen riverboat.

It was more than 15 years ago when we met singer/pianist Phyllis Dale. For more than a decade, every night Phyllis played whatever the crowd wanted when the passengers gathered for the after-hour parties in the Delta Queen steamboat' great old Texas Lounge. Phyllis is an original, a born entertainer and we've been waiting for years to get her up here for one of our Wednesday night jam sessions. Well, last night was our night, and The Flood's own crowd was enthralled.

These days Phyllis is a world-class travel agent and consultant, on the road all the time with tour groups and adventures. We don't know when we'll get her back this way. But hey, girl -- you've got a standing invitation with party with The Flood. Hear 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.