This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a track from the best gig of the year.

The Flood always keeps open the third Saturday morning in May in order to play our favorite gig of the year. The Coon Sanders Nighthawks Fans Bash is an annual gathering of traditional jazz players and fans who come to our town from all over the country for three days and nights of good music and good times.

The Flood's so honored be part of this. For more than a decade now, we've played the Saturday morning session with what we call "the jug band breakfast," serving up generous helpings of hokum with their bacon and eggs. Here's a tune from last year's gathering. Click here to check it out!

 By the way, if you're in the Huntington area, come for the fun Saturday morning. See our website -- 1937flood.com -- for the details.

 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.

See ya on the radio!

The Flood is on the road this week, so there will be no podcast this week.

Instead of our usual practice session, we'll be in Lexington, Ky., this Wednesday evening performing on Red Barn Radio (www.redbarnradio.com). If you're in the area, come on down for the show -- it starts at 7 p.m. at 161 North Mill Street in downtown Lexington.

Or if you can't be there in person but still want to check out the doin's, Red Barn streams the live broadcast. Just visit www.wgad.net and click the big red icon on the right of the screen. See ya on the radio!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a fresh visit with an American classic.

As we noted in a recent podcast, The Flood's at the start of another reconfiguration -- new instrumentation, new tunes -- and so lately the weekly rehearsals have been especially interesting as fresh ideas come to the fore. Here's a case in point. For a while now, Joe Dobbs and Charlie Bowen have messed around occasionally with Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and at last night's practice session, Michelle Walker stepped up to put some vocals on top of that. Oh, it's still a work in progress -- consider this a report from The Flood's New Projects Committee.Click here to check it out! 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's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a re-do of an old tune. At a gig last week, a thing that we've been using just as warmup tune got such a nice response that we're thinking it's gonna start making its way onto The Flood's regular set list. "Walk Right In" was a monster hit back in the 1960s for The Rooftop Singers, but it's originally a jug band tune. The great Gus Cannon wrote the song and recorded with his band, The Jug Stomper, back in 1929. Most recently the tune was revived by The Carolina Chocolate Drops. Here's our take on it from last night's rehearsal. Click here to check it out! 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's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a reunion with a wonderful old tune.

We're forever revisiting tunes from our youth. Here's an old song from Eric Andersen that Dave Peyton, Roger Samples and Charlie Bowen used to do 40 years ago in the earliest days of The Flood. The tune's been lying dormant for decades.

But lately, The Flood's been reinventing itself again and Michelle Walker and our newest Floodster, Randy Hamilton, have been working on some tight background vocals. As we've been looking for vehicles to show off their good work, this song came floating back to the surface of our collective memory.

On the evening this particular track was recorded, most of the current Flood members had never heard the song before and you'll hear them still working out their parts, but already you can also hear Michelle and Randy nailing down some vocal ideas on the choruses. It'll be fun to listen to this arrangement come into its own in the months ahead. Click here to check it out!

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's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a pair of classic fiddle tunes …. but first, a few laughs...

Brother Dave was tired after nearly two hours of practice last night and was ready to pack up his Autoharp and go home. But then we persuaded him to put his picks back on for one more tune. He did, only to find Joe laying in wait for him. Click here to check it out!

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's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a new take on an old tune.

We were a little ticked at ourselves for forgetting to record "Georgie Buck" when we made our newest CD last August. Dave Peyton brought us this Aunt Jennie Wilson tune several years ago and we'd been doing it regularly in shows, but when it came time to record the album, it completely slipped our minds.

Well, everything happens for a reason. Lately, we've been reconfiguring The Flood, and now we've got stronger harmony vocals from Michelle Walker and Randy Hamilton, so suddenly old Georgie Buck's got a whole new lease on life.

This is one of our takes on the tune at last night's practice session. I think by the time we record that next CD, "Georgie Buck" will be front and center. Click here to hear the audio

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.