Merry Christmas from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie is a special extended holiday edition of The 1937 Flood podcast.

Christmas is a time of reunion and we were thrilled last night that Floodster Emeritus Jacob Scarr -- back in town on Christmas break from the college he attends in Colorado -- brought his guitar to sit in with us.

He and Randy Hamilton and Charlie Bowen were just getting started, when other friends started arriving to enjoy some time with Jacob.

Along came Randy Brown with his big old Gibson L-5 and through the other door came blues harmonica great Jim Rumbaugh and his friend Karen Combs, a lady who knows a thing or two about the blues herself.

Our Christmas gift to you is a sampling of this very special evening. Click here to hear the tunes.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features an old favorite from the '50s.

Nobody ever did the blues better than Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Back in the late 1950s they recorded an incredible album for Smithsonian Folkways called "Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing," which offered a number of original compositions.

Included was this song, which we often use to open or close a rehearsal session, because it's just so much fun. Click here to hear the tune.

 Tunes from the rehearsal sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer most Thursdays. For details on that, click here.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

In this week's freebie, we invite you to listen in on a little musical banter.

People play music for all kinds of reasons, in all kinds of places. For us, some of the best times come when we're just sitting around playing and listening to each other. It's a kind of musical conversation that sometimes reaches beyond mere words.

Last night was a case in point. We hadn't seen each other for a few weeks, and it was good to just sit down and catch up. Want to eavesdrop? Here's a sample. Click here to hear the tune.

Tunes from the rehearsal 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.