This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features our revisiting a tune we started playing more than a decade ago.

Not long ago, Joe Dobbs added a fifth string to one of his fiddles which gives him a lovely new lower register to play with. Sometimes it's like having another instrument in the band, a cross between a violin and viola.

Late in the evening at a recent jam session, Joe demonstrated how this innovation can give a whole new voice to tune like "Down by the Sally Gardens," which The Flood's been playing since its first CD more than 10 years ago.

Oh, and by the way, that's our buddy Jim Rumbaugh playing that beautiful harmonica solo. Hear the audio.

Finally, remember that the 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.