This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a promise not to let the good stuff get away!

Like many band, we often will work hard on a song to get it ready for a show or for a recording, and then once the show or recording session is done, the song sort of drifts into the background again. A frequent comment at our weekly rehearsals after we happen to revisit a good old tune is, “Now, folks, we can’t let that one get away!”

Well, we all voted that way last night when we happened back upon a Randy Hamilton special, Randy’s beautiful rendering of “Wayfarin’ Stranger.” We definitely aren’t letting this one get away. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features our lunar tribute!

The moon was much on our minds this week, as the solar eclipse brought people out to the streets to party like pagans.

In fact, we were still having lunar thoughts last night at the rehearsal, trying decide on which of The Flood’s many moon tunes to use to commemorate the event, when — as usual — Michelle nailed it. Sing it, girl! Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a little something different: a mini-concert!

What an excellent evening we had last weekend at Taylor Books in Charleston. Hands down, it’s one of our all-time favorite venues. Every time we play there, we find a fun, warm crowd, so supportive, which encouraged us this time to roll out two hours worth of all-new songs.

So, for this week’s podcast here are four songs from last weekend’s sweet gig. Enjoy! Click to hear the tunes.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we’re working on for a big gig this Saturday in Charleston.

The Family Flood is excited about rolling into downtown Charleston this Saturday night. Starting at 7:30, we’ll be playing at Taylor Books at 226 Capitol Street, raising a ruckus.

 In fact, we’ve even got a tune about that—this old folk song that our band manager, Pamela Bowen, recommended to us earlier this year — all about the ruckus to be raised.

Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we’re working on for a big gig later this month.

One of the joys of this summer has been working up a Flood version of a great old Ivory Joe Hunter song. For years, we’ve wanted to do this 1950 mega-hit, “I Almost Lost My Mind,” but it took this summer and Michelle and Randy’s rich and sexy harmonies to make it happen, as you’ll hear in this track from last night’s rehearsal.

It’s one of the new numbers we’ll be doing later this month when we play at Taylor Books in Charleston. Mark your calendar: We’ll be there Saturday night, Aug. 12. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features something a little different.

Thought you might like to go behind the scenes and hear what goes into the arrangements. Last night’s rehearsal focused primarily on vocals, as we spent the evening hunting for harmonies for some of the new tunes we’ve been working on.

Here are snippets of two songs. Listen to the color that Randy and Michelle’s voices bring to these new numbers. Click to hear the tune.

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a new song for us.

We’re very excited about the show we’re putting together to perform in Charleston next month. When we appear at Taylor Books on Saturday night, Aug. 12, we want to have an all-new show, featuring tunes we’ve not played in public before. It’s a challenge, but, hey, we like challenges.

And it’s giving us a chance to learn some great new songs, including some classics we’ve always meant to bring into The Flood repertoire. For instance, our all-time favorite love song to The Mountain State has always been “West Virginia Chose Me,” a work created a couple of decades ago by our old friend, writer/composer Colleen Anderson. It says everything we feel about our native soil.

Here Michelle leads us through our first take on Colleen’s beautiful song at last night’s rehearsal. Click to hear the tune.