This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a new spin of an old, old song.
The jam session seldom starts with the same tune week after week, but often ends with one. After several hours of music, after the voices are spent and fingers are sore, someone's calling for the old folk music chestnut "House of the Rising Sun" usually signals that the collective is finished for another week.
But that doesn't mean the assembly will play the song the same way each time. Sometimes it's fast and furious, other times it's slow and bluesy. Sometimes it's a serious ballad, other times, new, just for laughs. Last night? Well, it wasn't a first -- but it has been a while since we've done it in waltz time… Hear the audio.
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