Thursday, April 4, 2013

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features the return of a pre-Flood favorite!

The first song Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen ever sang together was "Solid Gone," also known as "Cannonball Blues." It was at a New Year's Eve party in 1972 and they were trying to figure out if they knew any songs in common. Dave had learned it from old Carter Family records and Charlie knew it as a Tom Rush number, but it was the same tune.

Now, this was all very antediluvian -- before The Flood. By the following spring, Dave and Charlie would hook up with Joe Dobbs and Roger Samples and the four of them would start The 1937 Flood. "Solid Gone" would a standard for the band for a good long while, but then it drifted away for a few decades.

Only recently have we started playing it again, and we're having such a good time with it that, for all times' sake, "Solid Gone" just might find its way onto the new CD we're currently working on. Stay tuned. Click here to hear the tune.

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.

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