From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a revisit with a wonderful jazz standard.

It's always a sweeter evening when The Chick Singer's on hand. We'd not seen our Michelle Walker for a month or more. She's been busy with personal, non-musical business. But last night she rolled into town and cranked Wednesday night up a couple of notches.

You know, there are tunes we never play except when Michelle is in the room, like this great old Duke Ellington number. Hear the audio.

In other news, be sure to check out our new web page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos of guest performers at our weekly jam sessions. The videos feature Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more. And watch this space -- we'll be regularly adding to this new spin on our ongoing digital jam session. Enjoy!

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.

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features a special moment with a tune from 1978.

Our old buddy Paul Martin doesn't join us on Wednesday night nearly often enough, but when he does, he makes memories. Recently Paul came with his mandolin and sat in for the entire evening, producing smiles all around the room.

Here he and his old Sheldon Road bandmate Randy Hamilton team up on the 1978 tune, "Ready for the Times to Get Better." The song was originally recorded by country crooner Crystal Gayle, but it's perhaps better known in the folkie world for the Doc Watson version of a few years back. Hear the audio.

In other news, be sure to check out our new web page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos of guest performers at our weekly jam sessions. The videos feature Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more. Enjoy!

Also, 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.

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features the guys kicking back on a comfortable old blues standard.

Pamela, The Flood's manager, occasionally reminds us that the weekly jam session is social as well as musical, a gathering of friends, regular listeners as well as players. We thought of that again as we listened to this track, which seems to capture the feeling of this particular evening. The end of a long, hot summer. Folks coming in happy … happy to be out of the heat, happy to see old friends again, happy to settle into this old Mississippi Sheiks tune that's as comfortable as a soft hat and a cool breeze… Hear the audio. (Incidentally, we're posting this week's podcast a day earlier than usual, because the Bowens are leaving on vacation tomorrow.)

In other news, be sure to check out our new web page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos of guest performers at our weekly jam sessions. The videos feature Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more. And watch this space -- we'll be regularly adding to this new spin on our ongoing digital jam session. Enjoy!

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.

The Flood loves it when friends come to sit in at the weekly jam sessions. Pamela has made hours of videos and we've now created a special section of the web site for them.

Check out the new page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos featuring Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more.

And watch this space -- we'll be regularly adding to this new spin on our ongoing digital jam session. Enjoy!

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features the guys kicking off with an old swing tune.

What we love about the Wednesday night jam sessions is that each one's different, depending on who's in the mix. It's like a good soup made from whatever ingredients just happen to be in the kitchen at the time. Some Wednesdays are all about blues, others are country or folk.

Last night was a swinging evening, with the main ingredients being Doug Chaffin on bass, Joe Dobbs on fiddle, Jim Rumbaugh on harmonica, Randy Brown on guitar, and the rest of us just reaching out and holding on for the ride… 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 a couple of fiddle and guitar duets.

Randy Brown is a jazz guitar player who regularly sits in with us and just classes up the joint! And whenever he starts playing great handfuls of what our Doug Chaffin calls "those Louisville chords," it's fun to watch the jaws drop around the room.

Randy has known Joe Dobbs almost as long as The Flood has, with shared musical memories reaching back to the 1970s. These days, our Wednesday night jam sessions have become all the richer now that Randy has become a regular. 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.