This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a typical tune from a typical Tuesday night with The Family Flood.

 The room was warm.

The band was hot.

The tunes were cool.

So the evening was just right for a gathering of good friends. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a little something for all the English majors out there.

This one -- a 1972 composition called "Jugband Song" by the legendary David Bromberg -- is a favorite warmup tune for The Flood. In fact, we put it on a CD a dozen years ago and we've been playing it ever since.

Now, for our friends in the English Department, the song lyric opens with a lot of cool water imagery and four (count 'em, four!) back-to-back similes, commenting on the subject's eyes, lips, body and soul. Check it out. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a current work in progress.

In The Flood, we're always trying new things and these days, in our latest incarnation, vocal harmonies are especially interesting to us. It's certainly understanding, considering that our two newest members -- Paul Martin and Randy Hamilton -- are both excellent singers in addition, of course, to being first-rate instrumentalists.

Last weekend, when we played a show on the Valley Gem riverboat as she sailed down the Ohio, we had two Floodsters out sick and those strong voices really saved the show.

 Here's a sample of the vocal harmonies from last night's rehearsal as we worked on a tune that is likely to be on our next CD as we begin working on it this fall. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

In this week's freebie features our revisiting an old favorite.

As we've said before, sometimes we let tunes get away from us. We'll do 'em for years, and then for some reason, they just drift out of the lineup.

Here's in a case in point, a wonderful old Duke Ellington number that we used to play in nearly every show.

Well, last night we were in a nostalgic mood and, lo and behold, "Don't Get Around Much Any More" popped right back into our heads. Click to hear the tune.