This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 A lot of the hokum tunes that The Flood has always loved were born far to the south of us, in place like Memphis and New Orleans. 

 
So it’s always a treat to find a song that grew a little closer to home. This tune traces back to a youngster named Bob Coleman — Kid Cole, they called him — from the west side of Cincinnati. It was 98 years ago this very month that Bob recorded it in Chicago. 

Here’s “Tear It Down.”

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

Since it’s Memorial Day weekend, we wanted to offer something appropriate in this week’s podcast. 

 
Of course, in the Floodisphere, our spiritual inclinations generally lean more to a rambunctious New Orleans jazz funeral than to a little church in the wildwood. 

So, here’s jubilant little hymn from your friends in The Flood.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 The Flood band room is usually a rather raucous place —rocking tunes, loud talk, lots of laughter — but often that mood can turn on a dime to something softer, even almost fragile. 

We hadn’t done this old Jackson Browne song for years, but something last week — about watching that the beautiful spring evening come falling in, seeing those long shadows rolling down over the newly green leaves outside our windows — brought this song back to mind. 

Here’s our latest take on “Jamaica Say You Will.”

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 This great late-‘60s Lovin’ Spoonful tune is the perfect opportunity to answer listeners’ requests for another little sample from Danny Cox’s recent band room reunion with his old buddy Bobby Murnahan. 

 
Lend an ear to Dan and Bob trading choruses at the end of this take on “(Sittin’ Back) Lovin’ You.”

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 We knew the band room was going to rock as soon as we saw our Danny Cox was bringing along his life-long buddy, guitarist Bobby Murnahan, who was visiting from Colorado. 

 
Just listen to Bobby and Danny trading choruses as we all ride this great old Texas blues at last week’s rehearsal.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 A half dozen years after his death at beginning of the horrid Covid pandemic, songwriter John Prine is still very much on our minds. Here’s one of The Flood’s favorite John Prine songs.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

 Our rendering of this ancient bittersweet song of love and loss dates back more than 45 years now, but each times we play it, it seems as new and fresh as a summer evening.