This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Here’s a song that was very important to a young Marty Robbins back in 1956. 

 
Marty was fresh out of the Navy at the end of World War II and working on a local TV show near his home in Arizona. That’s when an established star — West Virginia native Little Jimmy Dickens — discovered him and brought him to Columbia Records. 

A few years later, Robbins recorded this song and it cemented a career that — over the next quarter century — would see him record more than 500 songs on 60 albums.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Whenever Michelle Hoge comes back to visit her old band mates, as she did last week, this tune is among the ones we trot out. 

Just listen to how Michelle’s superb harmonies seal the deal on this song that Ivory Joe Hunter recorded 77 years ago this month.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 When Jim Rumbaugh and his sweet wife Donna dropped in at last week’s rehearsal, we drew them into our latest project. 

 
Listen to Jim join in on singing the chorus as well as contributing a cool bit of harmonica on this century-old siren song of the Bahamas.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 In the autumn of 1963, a new tune hit the charts that sparked the imagination of all of us aspiring young folksingers. 

It was 63 years ago this month that radio stations throughout our part of the world seemed to hourly played Bobby Bare’s new song. 

 
“500 Miles Away From Home” had a special meaning here, because Bobby was famously is of us, a native son of Ironton, Ohio.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 As much as we try to use the rehearsals to work out arrangements to our regular tunes, we never drift too far away from The Flood’s original loose jam session vibe. 

 
That means there’s always room for “sometimes kinda tunes," like this one, heads-up, top-down and just flat-out rattling and rolling into the sunset!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 This song got dressed up and went to town last week when Danny Cox came to the rehearsal with his sweet Gretsch Super Chet. 

 
Just listen to how Dan uses that classic 1970s hollow body guitar to bring sass and class to this long-time Flood standard.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Here’s the latest treasure that Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox have brought to The Flood’s table, a Charlie Starr composition from Alabama that resonates powerfully in our own Appalachian hills as well.