This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Charlie’s Grandma Bowen had a thing about mockingbirds. 

 When he was just a little boy he remembers her winking at him and saying, “Now, Eddie, be careful what you say around mockingbirds. Those darn birds? They’ll tell your secrets every time.” 

 
That notion came back to him recently when he started writing this song.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Our guitarist Danny Cox paints pictures with his sound. 

 
He has a positively uncanny capacity for discovering ways to bring out the colors and textures in all kinds of melodies and to plant stories in the minds of everyone who hears. 

Just listen to his treatment of this rich old Sonny Burke composition, finding all kinds of new magic and nuance in this poignant melody. Here — have some “Black Coffee”!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 This song has rattled around in the Floodisphere for decade but only recently did we decide to give it a try. Whaddaya think?

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Wrapping up recent Christmas party, The Flood UN-wrapped its new anthem to winter, this mashup of “Moscow Nights” with “Greensleeves.” 

 
It’s our gift to you. Merry Christmas from the Floodisphere!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Christmas is usually a pretty raucous time in our band room, with old friends coming back around and new friends ... well, new folks just starting to figure us out. Yes, indeed, we do tend to take those tidings of comfort and joy at their word. 

 
And our holiday celebration is especially memorable if we’ve got that jolly ol’ Jim Rumbaugh in the room, as we did at a festive gathering at the Bowen House last weekend. 

To make the season bright, we have to get Jim doing his bluesy Christmas contribution that he calls, “Got My Yule Log Burnin’.”

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 One of the first tunes that my cousin Kathy Castner and I did when we started singing together more than 30 years ago is this lovable love song from early in John Denver’s writing career. 

 
So it’s only natural that “For Baby (For Bobbie)” is in the mix whenever Kathy gets to make one of her rare trips from Cincinnati to Huntington to sit in with the band. Here’s a take on the tune from last weekend.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 While it’s not specifically about the holidays, a song that says “all our lives were entwined to begin with” seems especially relevant right about now. Happy Thanksgiving, dear friends.