Friday, March 8, 2013

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune -- and a memory.

It's great how songs can remind us of specific times and places. At this week's rehearsal, when Michelle Walker and Doug Chaffin launched into "Since I Fell for You," we were transported back to a snowy Saturday night in Charleston four or five years ago.

We were playing a FOOTMAD concert, sharing the bill with another great band, Stewed Mulligan. It had been a fun evening of jug band songs and general silliness, blues and fiddle tunes and old-time string band music, so when Michelle started this classic 1940s jazz standard, a hush fell over the audience.

In seconds, though, people were humming along, then they clapped so much for Doug's sweet mandolin solo that he had to take a second chorus. Finally, by the time Michelle got to the last notes of the number, people were on the feet and cheering her. What a sweet memory.   Click here to hear the tune.

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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