Wednesday, May 28, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie is a track that really captures the informal nature of Wednesday nights around here.

For a warmup, we kick off a tune we don't play very often. In fact, you can hear Charlie Bowen and Dave Peyton discussing chords during Doug Chaffin's solo on the mandolin.

You can also hear us greeting Joe Dobbs as he arrives. Joe quickly unpacks his fiddle and takes his solo while still standing in the doorway behind Charlie. It was some of Joe's prettiest playing of the night! 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.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie is a memorial to friends no longer with us.

In the room where we rehearse each week is a bookcase where we've begun to display photos of some of the dear friends who have passed away over the years.

Looking into their smiling faces as we play is a real joy, especially in those relatively rare quiet moments -- like this beautiful impromptu duet by Doug Chaffin and Joe Dobbs on a haunting rendition of a Irish melody, "Star of the County Down."

On this Memorial Day weekend, it's comforting to thinking about how old friends live on in our memories. 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.

Friday, May 16, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a surprise from an old friend.

We invited former Floodster Chuck Romine to sit in with us at a gig this week, knowing his ever-lively tenor banjo would really please the crowd.

But at the rehearsal the night before the job, Chuck showed up not with his banjo, but with a new prize: a sweet Martin tenor guitar he had just bought. You can hear him with it on two solos on this take of a David Peyton classic, a tune he learned from Aunt Jenny Wilson called, "Georgie Buck." Click here to hear the tune.

Incidentally, "Georgie Buck" also is featured on our new CD, "Cleanup and Recovery." Click here to read about the new disc.

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.