Thursday, January 26, 2012

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a shout-out to the real flood.

Seventy-five years ago this week, most of the streets of downtown Huntington -- and many other cities along the Ohio River -- were under water, devastated by the great 1937 flood. So, if you're a band named after that natural disaster and you have a jam session on its poignant anniversary, what do you play? Why, one of the fine flood songs of Bob Dylan, of course. Take it away, boys. 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.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

From This Week's Flood Jam Session


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a couple of very diverse numbers from newcomers to or weekly gathering.

At the recommendation of Joe Dobbs, bluesman Chris Sutton and his buddy Mike Lyzenga dropped in to share a few tunes.

And from Princeton, W.Va., singer/songwriter Albert Perrone came with his friend and jam session regular Doug Imbrogno.

Finally, in the spirit of all things new, The Flood introduced its new band mate. Bassist/guitarist/singer Randy Hamilton of Willow Wood, Ohio, has become our newest member. Randy's been sitting in with us since late last summer, and we figured it was high time we made an honest Floodster out of him. You'll hear him on both of these tracks from last night's do.

First up is Chris with a bluesy original called "Elevator." Then come Doug and Albert with a wild and woolly rendition of that 1940s standard, "Enjoy Yourself." Doug calls our jam sessions the region's only weekly Irish caili. Well, thank to you guys, we certainly did enjoy yourselves! Hear the two tunes.

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, January 12, 2012

Our first VIDEO podcast, featuring a track from the New CD!


This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a VIDEO from the band's new CD, "Wade in the Water."

Since we started this podcast three years ago, it's always been an audio affair, but with the start of a new year, we thought we'd try something different -- our first VIDEO podcast. And we got a great one to start with.

Last August, when we went in the studio to record our new "Wade in the Water" CD, Michael Valentine, Adam Harris and the good folks with Live at Trackside made videos of us recording a number of the tunes. This week Michael released a video of us doing this great old Hokum Boys song, "Somebody Been Usin' That Thing." click here to watch it. Hope you enjoy it.

And if you're interested in getting your hands on the new CD, come by the web site at 1937flood.com -- we'll tell you how you can order right online! -- click here to read all about it.