This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we've worked up for a gig this weekend.

The Flood is pleased and honored to be invited once again to participate in the wonderful Diamond Teeth Mary Blues and Arts Festival this weekend in downtown Huntington. We're set to play Saturday afternoon at Heritage Station.

Last night was a blues night at our weekly rehearsal and here's a great old Mississippi Sheiks tune we're working on the show.

Come on downtown and party with us Saturday afternoon. http://www.1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast275.mp3Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features the birth of a new Flood legend…

We in the Family Flood make our own legends, often with a little help from our friends, and sometimes that help, such as it is, is all by accident.

Now, at last night's rehearsal, we got into a real Dylan mood.

We had been singing back-to-back tunes by Bobby for a half an hour or so when our old buddy Richard Cobb, on hand to listen to music, misheard a particular lyric and…well, click here to take a listen to what happened next!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features two tunes from a great gig last weekend.

The Family Flood had a flat-out ball last weekend at our show in Trinity Episcopal. As Floodster Paul Martin observed afterwards, we had truly a "musician's audience" on hand for that show, knowledgeable folks who applauded good solos and tight harmony as well as favorite tunes. We could have played for them all night.

And Friday was also the night of a rare blue moon, a fact we didn't pick up on until the very last minute, but at least in time to revise our set list to include a little tribute to that lunar event.

Here is the wrap-up of our first set on that enjoyable evening in downtown Huntington. Click here to hear the tunes!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features two tunes we're preparing for a gig this weekend.

We're excited about the show we'll do in downtown Huntington this Friday night at Trinity Episcopal Church. We play from 7 'til 8:30, and the program will feature new tunes as well as some old favorites.

First here is one of the new ones we're working up, a beautiful piece called "Seven Bridges Road," featuring the vocals of our Paul Martin, Michelle Lewis and Randy Hamilton.

Meanwhile, back on the other side of the musical spectrum, we do plan to also have a little history lesson, uh, Flood stye, all about George Washington and his ukulele…

 Remember we start at 7 at Trinity Episcopal, 520 11th Street in downtown Huntington. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Click here to hear the tunes!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features our revisiting a great old song from the 1920s.

We're always looking for easy, happy little tunes that we can warm up on, songs that we can also also use for a soundcheck before a show. The best ones are those that let everybody just stretch out. We can pass it all around, and everybody gets a solo or two. Here's a perfect example.

Now, this fine old Blind Blake tune from the 1920s had almost gotten away from us. We used to play it a lot 10 years ago or so, but we hadn't it a quite a while.

In fact, it occurred to us that our newer members -- Randy Hamilton and Paul Martin -- hadn't even heard it. Well, we fixed that -- right here. Have a listen!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie demonstrates how ideas evolve in a Flood rehearsal.

So, The Flood is currently preparing for a big show at the end of this month in downtown Huntington at Trinity Episcopal Church. Now, we don't get invited to play at such beautiful venues just every day, so we've been working on some special material.

 At last night's rehearsal, Randy Hamilton had just finished running through his gorgeous rendition of "Wayfarin' Stranger," which reminded Dave Peyton of joke about the passing through the pearly gates, which then inspired us to a tune that sorta matched the mood...

Well, here -- take a listen for yourself!

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a lovely tune that we're just starting to work with.

Every once in a while, you run across a melody that's just waiting for someone to make movie around it. It cries out to be a memorable soundtrack. We feel that way about this one.

As soon as Doug Chaffin starting playing "The Lovers' Waltz," the beautiful composition Jay Ungar and Molly Mason wrote more than 30 years, we knew we had to add it the Flood repertoire.

Now, we've just started learning this one, but part of the goal of these podcasts is to let you hear arrangements as they develop over time. So here it is: "Lovers' Waltz, Take 1." Click here to hear the tune.