This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we often give a special assignment to.

When we’re preparing a show — and we’re getting ready for a good one on Saturday, March 9, at Taylor Books in Charleston — we’re always on the lookout for tunes that would be especially good to open or close a set with.

What we want here is a lively song that can get an audience clapping and singing along, either eager for the show to start or sorry to see it end. The song should feature everybody who’s on stage, highlighted by vocals and solos. In a word, it’s an ensemble piece.

For the past half dozen years or so, a particular good one for an ensemble is this Jimmy Reed number, which you may recognize as the opening tune on our most recent CD, our “Live, In Concert” album.

So, here, from a recent rehearsal, is the 2019 version of “You Got Me Slippin’.” Click to hear the tune.