This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features a special moment with a tune from 1978.

Our old buddy Paul Martin doesn't join us on Wednesday night nearly often enough, but when he does, he makes memories. Recently Paul came with his mandolin and sat in for the entire evening, producing smiles all around the room.

Here he and his old Sheldon Road bandmate Randy Hamilton team up on the 1978 tune, "Ready for the Times to Get Better." The song was originally recorded by country crooner Crystal Gayle, but it's perhaps better known in the folkie world for the Doc Watson version of a few years back. Hear the audio.

In other news, be sure to check out our new web page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos of guest performers at our weekly jam sessions. The videos feature Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more. Enjoy!

Also, remember that the tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam sessions features the guys kicking back on a comfortable old blues standard.

Pamela, The Flood's manager, occasionally reminds us that the weekly jam session is social as well as musical, a gathering of friends, regular listeners as well as players. We thought of that again as we listened to this track, which seems to capture the feeling of this particular evening. The end of a long, hot summer. Folks coming in happy … happy to be out of the heat, happy to see old friends again, happy to settle into this old Mississippi Sheiks tune that's as comfortable as a soft hat and a cool breeze… Hear the audio. (Incidentally, we're posting this week's podcast a day earlier than usual, because the Bowens are leaving on vacation tomorrow.)

In other news, be sure to check out our new web page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos of guest performers at our weekly jam sessions. The videos feature Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more. And watch this space -- we'll be regularly adding to this new spin on our ongoing digital jam session. Enjoy!

Finally, remember that the tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

The Flood loves it when friends come to sit in at the weekly jam sessions. Pamela has made hours of videos and we've now created a special section of the web site for them.

Check out the new page at http://www.1937flood.com/pages/aa-guestvideos.html where you can see videos featuring Rob McNurlin, Phyllis Dale, Jesse Smith, Wendell Dobbs, Bill Hoke, Doug Imbrogno, Dale Jones, Rob and Judy Jones, Nerf Brown, Paul Martin, Jim Rumbaugh, Roger Samples, Kathy Castner, Randy Brown, Mike Smith and more.

And watch this space -- we'll be regularly adding to this new spin on our ongoing digital jam session. Enjoy!

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features the guys kicking off with an old swing tune.

What we love about the Wednesday night jam sessions is that each one's different, depending on who's in the mix. It's like a good soup made from whatever ingredients just happen to be in the kitchen at the time. Some Wednesdays are all about blues, others are country or folk.

Last night was a swinging evening, with the main ingredients being Doug Chaffin on bass, Joe Dobbs on fiddle, Jim Rumbaugh on harmonica, Randy Brown on guitar, and the rest of us just reaching out and holding on for the ride… Hear the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a couple of fiddle and guitar duets.

Randy Brown is a jazz guitar player who regularly sits in with us and just classes up the joint! And whenever he starts playing great handfuls of what our Doug Chaffin calls "those Louisville chords," it's fun to watch the jaws drop around the room.

Randy has known Joe Dobbs almost as long as The Flood has, with shared musical memories reaching back to the 1970s. These days, our Wednesday night jam sessions have become all the richer now that Randy has become a regular. Hear the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

From This Week's Flood Jam Session

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features a funny ballad from old friend, along with some storytelling!

We've not seen our great friend, Mike Smith, for months and months. In fact, since our last get-together, Mike went back home to England to visit with family and friends for three weeks or so. But now he's back in the States and last night he came back to his Flood family.

Mike's quite a musician. In addition to playing a lyrical fiddle, he also stops us in our tracks with his a cappella ballads. Here he takes along on Christy Moore's wonderful song, "A Stitch in Time."

Oh, and stay tuned when the singing's done, because the lyrics inspire Doug Chaffin to tell us a story. Hear the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

This Week from The Flood Jam Sessions

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood jam session features the legendary Phyllis Dale with an original composition dedicated to the beautiful Ohio River.

Regular listeners know that a few weeks ago, our dear friend Phyllis came by for a long-overdue visit with The Flood, and on the podcast the next day, we featured a couple of Phyllis's good-time tunes, the kind of numbers with which she used to rock The Delta Queen steamboat, where she was an on-board entertainer for 10 years.

But there's another side to Phyllis Dale too -- the ballad singer and songwriter. Here's another track from that evening. This time Phyllis does her wonderful composition, "She's the Ohio." And listen closely -- that's our good friend Wendell Dobbs sitting in on flute for a lovely solo. Hear the audio.

By the way, tunes from the jam sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.