Thursday, February 16, 2012

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features nearly 10 minutes of fiddle tunes born of a single question.

One of the things we all love about the weekly jam sessions is how related tunes tend to come up in bunches like wildflowers. Last night was the perfect example.

At one point, Norman Davis -- who, with his beautiful bride, Shirley, are beloved regulars at our Wednesday night gatherings -- asked Joe Dobbs to play that old fiddle tune with a girl's name in it. Well, that led to a number of fiddle tunes named after women, from "Rachel" to "St. Anne's Reel" to "Red Wing" and more. Hear the tunes.

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.

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