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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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6:27

Tim Irr and Susan Nicholas Get a Little Touch of...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/17

Floodango fever swept back into the WSAZ-TV studio this afternoon.On the heels of Monday morning’s visit to the station’s Studio 3 show, Flood and Alchemy Theatre folks were back in front of the cameras there this afternoon to talk with Tim Irr and Susan Nicholas about our big Spring Floodango show set for 2:30 p.m. this Sunday.As you’ll see in the above video, these First Look at 4 anchors sat down with Floodsters Charlie Bowen and Sam St. Clair and Alchemy’s Michael Murdock to discuss what folks

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6:03

WSAZ-TV Gives Us Some Love for Next Weekend's Spring...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/15

Susan Nicholas and Taylor Eaton and all the good folks at WSAZ-TV’s Studio 3 this morning gave some sweet attention to our Spring Floodango show set for 2:30 p.m. this Sunday at Alchemy Theatre.As you’ll see in the above video, the anchors sat down with Charlie Bowen of The Flood, Michael Murdock of Alchemy and Douglas Imbrogno, Sunday’s special guest artist, to talk about what folks can expect to hear and see at the show.Also, the broadcast gave us an opportunity to congratulate Mike on the first

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4:42

"No Ash Will Burn"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/12

We learned this tune from the late Floodster Emeritus Bill Hoke, who — like many other people — said he first heard it at a folk festival some time in the early 1990s.It has been about 25 years ago now. Bill stopped off to visit at the Bowen House while on a trek from his Abingdon, Va., home to Dayton, Ohio, to see his dad. We can still picture him there in The Flood band room, picking up Charlie Bowen’s guitar and strumming a chord or two.“You guys ought to do this song,” he said softly, and

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1:56

Come to the Spring Floodango April 21!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/07

The legacy of a really good party ought to be another party! And we had a really good party last New Year’s Eve at Alchemy Theatre when the good folks at the Geneva Kent Center for the Arts hosted The 1937 Flood’s 50th birthday bash. We are thrilled that our friends at Alchemy want us back for an encore. Mark your calendar — Sunday afternoon, April 21 — we’re going to welcome Spring 2024 with a whole afternoon of songs and stories. We’re calling it The Spring Floodango! And Our Guest Artist…And not

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6:00

"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/04/05

In blues parlance, the term “easy rider” is code for … oh, well, for many things. Maybe a rovin’ gambler or a lover, maybe a pimp … (Y’all just talk among yourselves and let your imagination gallop away with ya.)Easy riders started appearing in blues songs more than a century ago. W.C. Handy famously featured an easy rider in his great “Yellow Dog Blues” back in 1915. But, as we noted in an earlier Flood Watch article, that great old blues — which Bessie Smith would memorialize with her classic

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4:40

"Peaceful Easy Feeling"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/29

She promised meet him after work, but she never showed up. Disappointed, he did what you do if you’re an aspiring composer: He put it all down in a song.A scene like that plays out every day somewhere in America. But it’s not every day that the resulting song becomes one of the most cherished tunes of the decade.Coffeehouse Roots“Peaceful Easy Feeling” began life on the cold linoleum floor of a coffeehouse after closing time. It was 1969 and a San Diego hippie by the name of Jack Tempchin was

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4:28

"Gotta Shave 'Em Dry"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/22

We know precious little about pioneer bluesman James “Boodle It” Wiggins. We don’t know when or where he was born, or even precisely when in the 1930s that he died. No pictures of him are known to exist.Some folks say he was “discovered” in Dallas by R. L. Ashford, a scout for Paramount Records. Fellow blues artist Big Bill Broonzy always said his friend Wiggins came from Louisiana.We do know that Wiggins ended up in Chicago, where he recorded for Paramount between 1928 and 1929, including some

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5:51

Two More for You to Vote On

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/19

We really appreciate the feedback and suggestions we’ve been getting so far from all y’all about some of the songs we’re considering for the new album. Here are a couple more we thinking about including. Whaddaya think?At last week’s rehearsal, Pamela Bowen videoed two very different tunes. First is our take on the jazz standard “But Not for Me.”As reported here earlier, George and Ira Gershwin penned this song in 1930 for the stage musical “Girl Crazy” (in which it was premiered by Ginger Rogers)

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7:18

Joyous St. Patrick's Days!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/17

St. Patrick’s Day has always been special to us, so it was particularly sweet six years ago tonight when the opening show for the 2018 season of “Route 60 Saturday Night” — the monthly musical variety bash for which The Flood was the house band — fell on March 17.To put a Celtic curl on the night, we dusted off some favorite songs from The Old Sod. As you’ll see in the above video, we opened the show at the good ol’ Route 60 Music Co. with one of the greatest sing-along in the Irish catalog — “The

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5:35

"I Almost Lost My Mind"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/15

Before rock ’n’ roll was a thing, it was rhythm and blues that was perking up the ears of a generation of young radio listeners, and tops among the early R&B songwriters was Ivory Joe Hunter, the original “Baron of the Boogie.” Ivory Joe — by the way, that wasn’t a nickname or a stage handle, but his given name (he always said that when he was born his parents thought he "looked just like the baby on the outside of the Castoria Ivory bottle, so they called me ‘Ivory’”— was born in Kirbyville, Texas,

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4:02

An Ed Light Special

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/09

When our friend Ed Light dropped in from the Baltimore area this week to sit in with The Flood for the very first time, he did something no one else has ever done: He wrote us a song!And we were so…. uh, well, you know, “honored” is not exactly the word we’re probably looking for here. But, considering the text that Brother Ed chose for his sermon, we were certainly dumbstruck by his discernment and thoroughly gassed by his sagacity.Playing on the 1951 Ernest Tubb/Red Foley classic “Too Old to Cut

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4:14

"Handy Man"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/08

Otis Blackwell already was an established songwriter in June 1959 when he changed the life of a young doo-wop singer from Alabama. One of the top 1950s songsmiths whose work influenced early rock and roll, Blackwell already had written the sultry “Fever,” which was to be the signature hit for Peggy Lee. He also had penned “Great Balls of Fire” for Jerry Lee Lewis, not to mention “Don’t Be Cruel,” which began his lucrative association with Elvis Presley through his followups like “All Shook Up” and

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5:16

"Make You Feel My Love"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/03/01

When Adele recorded “Make You Feel My Love” in 2008 for her debut album 19, many of her fans assumed she wrote it. After all, the British superstar-to-be had written or co-written all the other songs on that disc.However, more cosmopolitan ears in the crowd knew the truth, that this song had a distinguished pedigree all its own.In fact, it was Bob Dylan who wrote “Make You Feel My Love” for his 1997 Time Out of Mind album, and immediately the song attracted an illustrious following. Among the

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3:11

Needed Time

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/23

Ah, memories. It was an autumn night 52 years ago, and Pamela and Charlie Bowen went to a theater in downtown Huntington is see the new Cicely Tyson/Paul Winfield movie called Sounder. What a wonderful film, and Charlie especially loved the bluesy musical score performed by Taj Mahal, who also played the character “Ike” on screen.Charlie loved it so much, in fact, that he started haunting Davidson Records Store down the street, just waiting to buy the soundtrack LP and learn some of the tunes

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3:36

Okay, How About This One?

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/18

We thank all y’all for your feedback last week on our plans for the new album. Your thoughts and suggestions on the tune we asked you about — “(When She Wants Good Lovin’) Baby Comes to Me”— are so helpful. So, now can we get your thoughts on another song we’re considering? “Am I Blue?”, featured in the video above, is a tune we often trot out at the start of a rehearsal so everyone can limber up for the evening. Our manager, Pamela Bowen, who shot the video, says that, while she likes the song

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6:22

"St. Louis Blues"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/16

“They say life begins at 40,” composer W.C. Handy once said, “but I wouldn’t know.” Handy was 40 in 1914 when he wrote “St. Louis Blues,” and, he noted, “ever since, my life has revolved around that composition.”Well, if you’re going to have a single song dominate your life, you could do much worse than have it be “St. Louis Blues.” Sometimes called “the jazzman’s ‘Hamlet,’” this composition is one of the most enduring and recognizable pieces in all of American music.Classic versions of “St. Louis

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4:21

Whaddaya Think About This Tune for the Next Album?

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/11

We want your advice, friends. We’re in the early — EARLY! — stages of planning The Flood’s next album, which we hope to record later this year.Right now we’re just starting to figure out what tunes we might want to record in the project, and we would really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.For instance, here’s a tune we like from last week’s rehearsal that our manager, Pamela Bowen, captured on video. What do you think? Is this one we should take to the studio? About the SongThis great old

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4:33

"Ready for the Times to Get Better"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/09

This song took a very long road on its journey to Floodlandia. The first time it was played in our band room was more than a dozen years ago on a mellow autumn night when our friends Randy Hamilton and Paul Martin dropped in to jam with us. Neither was a member of The Flood yet — Randy would join the following year and Paul a few years after that — but their song was the hit of the evening. In fact, it was featured later in our weekly podcast.However, “Ready for the Times to Get Better” didn’t work

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4:47

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/02/02

If you were sitting around thinking of songs connected to The Mountain State, “Sweet Georgia Brown” probably wouldn’t be on your list.It wasn’t on ours either, even though we had loved and played the song for decades. But then about a dozen years ago, the late Dave Peyton dropped some song news on us at a jam session. “Hey, man,” we remember him saying with a big grin, “it's a West Virginia tune!”Of course, Brother Dave was absolutely right. Composer Maceo Pinkard, who went on to become one of the

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3:34

Sam's Song

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/01/26

It was 15 years ago when Sam St. Clair brought us this tune, and it quickly became his theme song. Ever since then, “Ain’t No Free” has been a beloved standard in many a Flood show.So, of course, the song had to have a place of honor at our big New Year’s Eve birthday bash at Alchemy Theatre several weeks ago:Click the video above to watch — or re-watch, if you were in the house with us that fun evening — Sam’s latest performance of the tune, as videoed by Pamela Bowen and Gina Martin from their

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