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The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

Each week The 1937 Flood, West Virginia"s most eclectic string band, offers a free tune from a recent rehearsal, show or jam session. Music styles range from blues and jazz to folk, hokum, ballad and old-time. All the podcasts, dating back to 2008, are archived on our website; you and use the archive for free at: http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-podcastarchives.html 1937flood.substack.com

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29:25

Flooding the TV!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/06

The Flood is thrilled to be featured in the latest installment of Armstrong Neighborhood Channel’s Press Room Recordings series of award-winning music videos.Douglas K. Morris and Shane Finster came by the Bowen House on June 27 to take in one of the band’s weekly rehearsals and to chat with Charlie Bowen about the group’s half-century history.The resulting half-hour film — released this morning — showcases The Flood’s eclectic mix of old and new tunes, ranging from swing pieces (“Ain’t

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4:28

It Had to be “Moonglow”!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/05

Rehearsals are not parties. They can be fun and satisfying, but the bottom line is that rehearsals are work sessions. The Flood is always trying to learn new songs, and since that’s where the songs are worked out, some rehearsals are just more fun than others. So the band usually try to end the evening on a high note. At one such rehearsal recently, Charlie Bowen asked if anybody had a tune in mind to end with. “How about something we know?” said Danny Cox with a chuckle and a grin. In a minute the

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1:21

Noel Sayre Made Sweet Memories

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/02

The love affair began on a summer night down by the riverside.It was June 2002 and The Flood was already there to make a memory, having been invited to perform as the guest artists with the Huntington Symphony Orchestra as part of its “Picnic with the Pops” series.Listening that night from the orchestra’s string section was a 30-year-old violinist named Noel Sayre, who was making memories of his own.Tickled that night by The Flood’s eclectic mix of folk, swing and hokum tunes, Noel took pains after

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4:36

"Jug Band Song"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/28

This raucous David Bromberg composition that The Flood has covered since the song’s release in the early 1970s opens with a stream of similes worthy of any precocious English major: She's got eyes like crystal water, Lips like cherry wine, A body like fine brandy, … And a soul like turpentineBut the best bit — the capper for the song — is a borrowed line, in fact, one of the greatest lines in the entire blues oeuvre: When I ask for water she brings me gasoline!In other words,

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5:38

"Shawneetown"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/21

Jack Nuckols, our newest band mate, brought us this song, a wonderful reflection on the early history of boating up and down the Ohio River, which flows by the communities in our valley.Hearing it, it would be natural for you to assume that “Shawneetown” is a old traditional tune. Actually, though, it is largely a 1970s composition by folk artist Dillon Bustin.The Song’s RootsTrue, Bustin based his first verse and chorus on fragments published in 1828, which he found quoted in Leland D. Baldwin’s

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1:13

Happy Birthday, Mountain Mama!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/20

In the middle of a busy rehearsal last night, we just had to take a moment out to prepare this little birthday sing-along to our beautiful hilltop homeland. Happy 161st, Mountain Mama! Shoot, gurl, you don’t look a day over a 150!By the way, if you’d like more Floodishness to help you celebrate this West Virginia Day, drop by our free West Virginia Blend playlist in the Radio Floodango music streaming service. Here’s the link.And remember, Montani Semper Liberi, y’all! This is a public episode. If

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3:44

What So Rare as a Day in June

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/14

The Flood rolled into Huntington’s West End last Sunday to enjoy a simply perfect June afternoon, performing at a picnic to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the city’s beloved Sacred Heart Catholic Church.What memories were made! Children and parents playing in the grassy field. Fun competitions for the kids, such as donut-eating contests. Old friends visiting and story-telling over hot food and cold drinks.For its part, the band wanted to augment its usual sets of rowdy party tunes with a

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3:48

"Furniture Man"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/11

A signature tune from the late David Peyton — the song he called “Furniture Man” — entered the Floodisphere 45 years ago as a wild and crazy sing-along for the folks who attended the latter years of the Bowen Bashes.In fact, the song helped to make memories at the very last of those semiannual music parties at which The Flood was born. Here, from that evening (Sept. 19, 1981), the rocking rendition by Dave, accompanied by his original Flood band mates, Charlie Bowen and Roger Samples, Joe Dobbs and

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5:16

"Somebody Stole My Gal"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/06/07

Some songs have very deep roots in the Floodisphere. For instance, the late Joe Dobbs loved this song. In fact, we can remember Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen jamming on this one with Joe and his brother Dennis at their Fret ‘n Fiddle music shop in its original Huntington West 14th Street location in the mid-1970s. (The song might even have been in the set list when the four opened for Little Jimmy Dickens’ concert at the old Memorial Field House in 1977.)The tune also was the first song that the

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5:08

"Can You Run?"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/31

We have always found this song incredibly moving, due in no small part to memories of the place and time when we played it in public for the first time.It was seven years ago at our favorite Charleston, WV, venue — Taylor Books — on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Honestly, had the gig not already been booked for months in advance, we probably would not have wanted to perform that evening.That’s because for us — and for most of the people in the audience that night — images from the

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3:15

"Loving You Would Be So Good for Me"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/24

Charlie Bowen wrote this song about 30 years ago with the idea that The Flood would perform it some day, even though at that particular moment, the future seemed rather uncertain for the band he had helped create two decades earlier.As reported earlier, in the period between the mid-1980s and the early ‘90s, life had started interfering with Flood dreams. As band members began drifting off in different directions, pursuing the interests of family and new jobs, The Flood had started being just a

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6:58

Songs of Sun and Rain

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/18

At this week’s rehearsal, Pamela Bowen, our manager/videographer, captured a couple more of the tunes that we are considering for inclusion in that new album we hope to start working on later this year.And, without our intending it, the two songs she videoed just happened to share the theme of rainy days and sunny days. That’s a hoot, even if it was unplanned.About the SongsThe first song on today’s “video extra” is The Flood’s take on Bob Dylan’s composition “Make You Feel My Love,” which debuted

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5:38

Coming Back to Brother Ray's Blues

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/17

Rehearsal is always important, of course, but sometimes leaving a song alone for a while also has interesting effects.For instance, it’s been probably a year or more since the Ray Charles classic “Hard Times (Who Knows Better Than I)” has made an appearance at a Flood rehearsal. It’s a great tune, but for some reason it just didn’t come to mind for while.However, the song hasn’t been stagnating, as it turns out. When the tune finally did roll around again at last week’s gathering, it had been

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4:58

"Driving Wheel"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/10

Canada’s folk music scene in the 1960s produced legends — from Gordon Lightfoot and Ian Tyson to Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young — and that remarkable community also nurtured a whole world of talented acolytes.One such folkie follower was British-born David Wiffen. Growing up singing skiffle with the Kingston-upon-Thames-based Black Cat group, Wiffen at age 16 moved from Claygate, Surrey, England, to Canada, where he became something of a rambling man.Initially part of Toronto’s

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4:20

Another Candidate for the New Album. Tell Us What You...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/04

Here’s another tune that is campaigning to be included on the new album we hope to start recording later this year. We’d like to hear what you think about it.As we noted earlier, we’ve loved “Peaceful Easy Feeling” ever since the late Roger Samples taught it to us back in the early 1970s when he joined Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen to help start The Flood. But it now being a new century and all, we wanted to give the song a new sound. That’s why the guys are letting Charlie’s banjo happily trot

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4:12

"After You've Gone"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/05/03

Today most of us don’t know the name Marion Harris, but Grandma probably did when she was a teen-ager listening to that new-fangled radio in the parlor.Songs that summed up the transition from the stodgy, gaudy Gilded Age to the brave new world of The Jazz Age were often the recordings of Marion Harris. Her tunes like “Jazz Baby” and “They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Take Me to the Land of Jazz” were a soundtrack of the changing times.Her most enduring legacy

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5:41

"Barbara Allen"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/26

A third of a millennium ago, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a New Year’s party at which he hear the “little Scotch song of Barbary Allen….”Scholars often cite that Jan. 2, 1666, entry as evidence that this famous ballad — which tells the tale of a beautiful woman who denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely demise — already was hundreds of years old by the time Francis Child collected it in the late 19th century.Barbara’s Other LifeIn fact, ethnomusicologists

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18:49

'Twas a Dandy Floodango

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/22

What a wonderful time we had yesterday afternoon with our friends at Alchemy Theatre when we launched the Spring Floodango. The stage was full. All five Floodsters — Charlie, Sam, Randy, Dan and Jack — were on hand. Joining them was the band’s beloved “chick singer,” Floodster Emerita Michelle Hoge, who drove in with her husband Rich from their Loveland, Ohio, home near Cincinnati just for the gig.Righteously augmenting The Flood fare were tasteful offerings by guest artist Douglas Eye (a/k/a Doug

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1:58

Today's the Day! We're All at Alchemy

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/21

The afternoon we have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Spring Floodango hits the stage at Alchemy Theatre today.The show starts at 2:30. Tickets are $20 and and all the proceeds go to support the wonderful work of Alchemy Theatre.As noted earlier, tickets will be available at the door OR you can order them online. Here’s the link for online ordering.Location, Location, LocationIf you have not been to the Alchemy venue yet and need help locating it, just put the address — 68 Holley Ave,

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4:21

Come Party with Us on Sunday Afternoon!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/19

Ours is a band that was born at a party and born TO party. Whether we’re at home in our band room at the Bowen House, settled in the living room of somebody else’s house or on stage at a gig, the party tradition that started more than a half century ago continues today. And our next opportunity for a public party will be this very weekend when we launch the Spring Floodango this Sunday afternoon at Huntington’s Alchemy Theater. Here’s a tune we have on tap for the afternoon. Take a listen and you’ll

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