This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a tune we're prepping for a series of special concerts we have set in July.

Our good friend and Floodster Emeritus Jacob Scarr is pretty busy with his new life -- college in Colorado and at home right now working a 40-hour-a-week summer job in Charleston -- but Youngblood's still got time for his old buddies. He sat in with us last night. And Jacob's going to be on hand as a guest performer at all three of the free concerts next month in our Joe Dobbs Book Tour.

Oh, wait a minute -- you didn't know fiddlin' Joe Dobbs has written a book?! Well, we'll be telling you all about it in the weeks ahead. For now, though, just mark your calendar for the days between July 12 and July 14 when The Flood will be playing shows in Boyd County, Ky., and Cabell and Kanawha counties in West Virginia to help spread the word about Joe's new book. Meanwhile, click here to hear the tune from last night's rehearsal!

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 our first go-around on a tune we hope to develop over the weeks ahead.

Yesterday was West Virginia Day, the 149th anniversary of our state's birth, and that was much on their minds last night as Michelle, Randy and Charlie got together for one of The Flood's occasional vocals-only practices. They found themselves thinking of little-known West Virginia tunes, like this rare gem from the great singer/songwriter Holly Near.

 Now, obviously, this arrangement is nowhere near ready for general consumption -- we're eager to hear what Joe and Doug, Dave and Sam bring to it in the weeks ahead -- but one of the things we'd like to do with these little podcasts is to sometimes document the evolution of an arrangement. So, with that mind and for the record, here's our first take on "West Virginia Friend."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.

Party with Us In Romney, WV, This Sunday Afternoon, June 17

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a tune we're preparing for a special show this Sunday in Romney, West Virginia!

The city of Romney -- population 5,873 -- is West Virginia's oldest town, celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. In fact, the Hampshire County community's main week of celebration kicks off this Sunday and The Flood is honored that we're invited to be part of it.

 We head to Romney this weekend to play a free concert at The Potomac Center at No. 1 Blue Street at 5 p.m. this Sunday. Check out our web site -- 1937flood.com -- for the details.

 Oh, we're so pleased that our old buddy, singer/songwriter Paul Martin, is joining us for the trip and will be a guest artist at the concert. Here's a sample -- at a recent Flood rehearsal, Paul led us on a moving rendition of a great Bob Dylan standard.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.

Come Party with Us at Tamarack This Sunday!

This week's freebie from The 1937 Flood features a tune we're preparing for a special show this weekend.

Tamarack is a West Virginia treasure. Based in Beckley, W.Va., it is a rich deposit of Appalachian crafts, food, music and just plain pure joy. And The Flood is honored to regularly be invited to perform there in the Gov. Hulett C. Smith Theatre, one of our all-time favorite venues.

We're heading back there this Sunday, June 10. At 2 p.m., The Flood will be back on stage for our 8th performance at Tamarack.

And we're especially happy that our long-time buddy, guitarist Jacob Scarr -- home from college in Colorado -- will on hand to sit in with us for this very special show. Come on out and party with us at Tamarack, this Sunday afternoon! Visit us on the web at 1937flood.com for the details.

Meanwhile, here's a tune from last night's rehearsal as we prepared the set for Sunday's show. 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 favorite Bob Dylan tune. Today's Dylan's 71st birthday. Who saw THAT coming?

 Bob has always been a huge part of The Flood's musical landscape. Hardly any weekly Flood practice goes by without at least one Dylan tune.

 For instance, last night Michelle, Randy and Charlie had a rare vocals-only Flood practice and before the night was over, they were trotting out this great Dylan number from the "Nashville Skyline" period.  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 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!