Thursday, October 27, 2011

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features a great old 1930s fiddle tune.

Sometimes one tune sets the mood for the whole evening. Last night I said to Joe Dobbs, "How about a fiddle tune?" Out came "Cincinnati Rag," a great old Byrd Moore - Clarence Green piece from 1930 that we haven't really done much with in years.

Well, it got everybody grinning. And if you listen closely, that Randy Brown in the middle of things, taking a break on a borrowed guitar. It was just that kind of night. Hear the audio.

In other Flood news, we have a new video for you to check out! Last August, The Flood visited the studios of theTrackside Live, Adam Harris's newly developed live performance video shoot that captures high quality video and audio recordings of unique bands performing in a relaxed atmosphere. We spent a great evening with Adam, Bud Carroll, Michael Valentine and the rest of the guys, and some exciting things are in the works that we'll be able to tell you about in the months ahead. In the meantime, for a 4-minute YouTube teaser, CLICK HERE!.

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.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features an original by a jam session first-timer.

Tom Norman has been playing in rock 'n' roll bands around here for decades, occasionally dipping into rockabilly. For instance, back in the '90s, he was on Joe Dobbs's old "Music from the Mountains" radio show on West Virginia Public Radio show.

Well, last night Tom finally made it to a Flood jam session and before the evening was out, we had him singing an original. Hear the audio.

In other Flood news, this just in -- we have a new video for you to check out! Last August, The Flood visited the studios of Trackside Live, a newly developed live performance video shoot that captures high quality video and audio recordings of bands performing in a relaxed atmosphere. We spent a great evening with Adam Harris, Bud Carroll, Michael Valentine and the rest of the Trackside team. Some exciting things are in the works that we'll be able to tell you about in the months ahead. In the meantime, to view a 4-minute YouTube teaser, CLICK HERE!

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.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features a little known Bob Dylan tune performed by one of our favorite jam session guests.

Many of us think we know a lot of Dylan tunes. And then we think again of our good friend Rob McNurlin, who really knows a lot of Dylan tunes.

One night last summer when Rob was home from Nashville and sitting in with us, our old buddy Zoe Brewer was in the room and she said, "Hey, Rob, do that Willie McTell song!" Rob thought for a moment and then out came this beautiful, little-known song that Dylan wrote in the early 1980s and didn't release until almost a decade later. Rob's rendition of "Blind Willie McTell" was the hit of the evening. Hear the audio.

By the way, if you'd like see video of Rob doing this and other songs at the Flood jam sessions, CLICK HERE!

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.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a version of a blues standard that we learned from vinyl: a 1961 Folkways recording by the late giant Eric Von Schmidt.

The jam session's always better when there's a harmonica in the room. Twice the fun when there's two of them! Last night The Flood's regular harmonicat, Sam St. Clair, was joined by Flood buddy Jim Rumbaugh, happily a frequent visitor to our Wednesday nights.

Here we turned Sam and Jim loose on Eric's version of "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor." 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.