This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features two tunes we're preparing for a gig this weekend.

We're excited about the show we'll do in downtown Huntington this Friday night at Trinity Episcopal Church. We play from 7 'til 8:30, and the program will feature new tunes as well as some old favorites.

First here is one of the new ones we're working up, a beautiful piece called "Seven Bridges Road," featuring the vocals of our Paul Martin, Michelle Lewis and Randy Hamilton.

Meanwhile, back on the other side of the musical spectrum, we do plan to also have a little history lesson, uh, Flood stye, all about George Washington and his ukulele…

 Remember we start at 7 at Trinity Episcopal, 520 11th Street in downtown Huntington. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Click here to hear the tunes!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features our revisiting a great old song from the 1920s.

We're always looking for easy, happy little tunes that we can warm up on, songs that we can also also use for a soundcheck before a show. The best ones are those that let everybody just stretch out. We can pass it all around, and everybody gets a solo or two. Here's a perfect example.

Now, this fine old Blind Blake tune from the 1920s had almost gotten away from us. We used to play it a lot 10 years ago or so, but we hadn't it a quite a while.

In fact, it occurred to us that our newer members -- Randy Hamilton and Paul Martin -- hadn't even heard it. Well, we fixed that -- right here. Have a listen!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie demonstrates how ideas evolve in a Flood rehearsal.

So, The Flood is currently preparing for a big show at the end of this month in downtown Huntington at Trinity Episcopal Church. Now, we don't get invited to play at such beautiful venues just every day, so we've been working on some special material.

 At last night's rehearsal, Randy Hamilton had just finished running through his gorgeous rendition of "Wayfarin' Stranger," which reminded Dave Peyton of joke about the passing through the pearly gates, which then inspired us to a tune that sorta matched the mood...

Well, here -- take a listen for yourself!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a lovely tune that we're just starting to work with.

Every once in a while, you run across a melody that's just waiting for someone to make movie around it. It cries out to be a memorable soundtrack. We feel that way about this one.

As soon as Doug Chaffin starting playing "The Lovers' Waltz," the beautiful composition Jay Ungar and Molly Mason wrote more than 30 years, we knew we had to add it the Flood repertoire.

Now, we've just started learning this one, but part of the goal of these podcasts is to let you hear arrangements as they develop over time. So here it is: "Lovers' Waltz, Take 1." Click here to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features our revisiting a tune from our youth.

Not long after the late Appalachian singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie wrote "The L and N Don't Stop Here Anymore," she performed it at a solo concert at Ashland Community College in Ashland, Ky., in the fall of 1966, and some of us were fortunate enough to be sitting in the front row.

We still remember her introducing it by saying, "It's nice to play this tune for people who don't need to be told what the L and N is or why we care that it won't stop here anymore."

We revisited the tune at the end of last night's rehearsal. Click here to hear the tune.