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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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6:22

"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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5:03

When She Wants Good Lovin’ ...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/01/19

This tune has really deep roots in the Floodisphere.About 20 years after our heroes, The Coasters, released this Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller song in 1957, The Flood started fiddling with it one fun summer night. After that, though, the song went back to sleep for, oh, a half century or so. We told much of that tale in an earlier Flood Watch article that also explored the history of the song. Click here to read all about that.The Song AwakesAnyway, on a winter’s evening a couple of years ago, the

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4:06

"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/01/12

A Video Extra:Whenever our old friend Paul Martin is back in the room — or, better still, on the bandstand with us, as he was for our big “Flood at 50” birthday bash on New Year’s Eve — we always get him to take us on a ride on his favorite Bob Dylan tune. Here from that wonderful New Year’s night at Alchemy Theatre is Paul leading the way on “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” which we have considered our Floodster emeritus’s signature song ever since he joined the Family Flood in 2015.About the SongBob

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4:01

"Sunny"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/01/05

Ever since it came together decades ago, The Flood has always sought a rich diversity in its repertoire. So late last year when Danny Cox asked, “Has the band ever done the song ‘Sunny’?” he heard an invitation in the enthusiasm of the answer: “No!” Danny worked out the chords, Jack took up the rhythm, we turned the vocals over to Randy, and suddenly the song was in the works. In fact, now it’s even picking up fans among the visitors. On this particular track, for instance, Floodster Emeritus Paul

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20:17

Wow, What a Birthday Party!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/01/02

New and old friends made epic memories for us as we celebrated the band’s 50th birthday with a New Year’s Eve bash at Alchemy Theatre, where Nora Ankrom, Mike Murdock, Stephen Vance and the rest made us all feel so very welcome.Obviously, a 20-minute video can’t do justice to almost five hours of near continuous live music, right up to the strike of midnight. However, working with the superb footage that Pamela Bowen shot from her ringside table, we can at least give a feel for the evening’s

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2:33

It's Tonight! Happy Birthday to Us

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/31

All this month we’ve been telling you about plans for our big “Flood at 50” Birthday Bash. Well, kids, tonight’s The Night, and, as Cousin Brucie used to say on good ol’ WABC, “Hey, be there or be square!”The fun starts at 7:30 at Alchemy Theatre, 68 Holley Ave. Unfamiliar with the location? No problem. Click here for a Google map.Or you can see it on our “The Venue” page on the web site at FloodAt50.com, which also has information on tickets, recent media coverage, the back story on the celebration

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4:47

"Raise a Ruckus Tonight"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/29

Here’s a tune we always trot out whenever we feel a party coming on. So you can bet we’ll have it on the set list this weekend for the big “Flood at 50” birthday bash on New Year’s Eve at Alchemy Theatre.In fact, we’re so eager for this weekend that we actually started putting the song through its paces earlier this month.Here’s our take on the tune from a joyous night at Sal’s Speakeasy in Ashland just a couple of weeks ago, featuring Michelle Hoge and the guys on the harmonies and happy solos from

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5:26

More Love from WSAZ-TV for Sunday's Bash

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/27

WSAZ-TV, which last week featured The Flood and Alchemy Theatre on its “Studio 3” show, invited us all back this afternoon for more information about Sunday night’s big “Flood at 50” New Year’s Eve birthday bash.This time Martina Bills interviewed Charlie Bowen and Danny Cox of The Flood and Nora Ankrom and Mike Murdock of Alchemy for a five-minute spot during the station’s “First Look at 4” program, produced by Summer Jewell.In addition to playing file footage from recent Flood gigs, Bills

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2:33

Countdown to Our Birthday!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/24

Just one week from tonight we’ll gather at Huntington’s wonderful Alchemy Theatre for the New Year’s Eve bash that will commemorate The Flood’s 50th birthday. Here’s our latest party preview, complete with vintage and current Flood fotos.As the video reports, the Golden Anniversary festivities begin at 7:30 Dec. 31 in the theater at the Geneva Kent Center for the Arts, 68 Holley Ave.The band will play a couple of full sets and then jam with old and new friends until the toast at midnight to cheer in

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3:09

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/22

We have a Christmas confession. Honestly, we don’t really care that much for Christmas music. Oh, we’re not scrooges or anything — well, a few of us are — but mainly it’s just the nature of Christmas songs themselves. The chord patterns are not especially easy to remember, and since you do them only a few days or weeks every year, you don’t get a chance to get real cozy with them. Plus, well, frankly Christmas tunes generally don’t swing. (Put a beat behind “Little Town of Bethlehem” and there will

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5:34

Spreading the Word about New Year's Eve!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/21

Susan Nicholas and Taylor Eaton of WSAZ-TV’s Studio 3 hosted a bunch of us this morning to talk about plans for our big “Flood at 50” birthday bash upcoming this New Year’s Eve at Alchemy Theatre.On hand for the spot were Charlie Bowen and Sam St. Clair from The Flood and Nora Ankrom and Mike Murdock from Alchemy.And In Print!Meanwhile, in Ashland, Ky., today, Lee Ward of The Daily Independent published a lovely story about the upcoming celebration. Click here to read her story.Links to these

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11:29

A Sweet December Night at Sal's

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/17

Returning to Sal’s Speakeasy last night for our latest monthly gig at our favorite Ashland, Ky., venue, we not only had the entire band on stage, but also we were joined by our beloved Floodster Emerita, Michelle Hoge, who drove in from Loveland, Ohio, just to be part of the fun.Band manager Pamela Bowen, our regular videographer, was under the weather and couldn’t make the gig, so we drafted a dear friend of The Flood — Danny Cox’s lovely sister Jeanette Trent — to shoot a little video. Thanks,

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4:45

"You Got Me Slippin'"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/15

When we go slippin’ and a-slidin’ into Sal’s Speakeasy in Ashland tomorrow night for our latest gig, we’ll bring with us one of our all-time favorite party tunes. The song that we call “You Got Me Slippin’” is loosely based on a classic Jimmy Reed piece from 65 years ago at the very dawn of rock ’n’ roll. And to further Floodify the fun, we also inject a few old Bob Dylan verses right in the middle of it just for glee (a shout-out to your grandpa’s sword, pictures on a board and fistfights with the

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2:44

"Our House"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/12

As we noted last week, highlights of Floodlandia’s Decembers are holiday visits with Charlie Bowen’s cousin Kathy Castner, who usually can be persuaded each time to sit in with the band for a special night.Jam sessions with Kathy are always chances to revisit favorite old tunes, like “Loving Arms” and “The Rose,” but they also can be opportunities to explore some new material too.For years now Kathy and Charlie have been doing a duet on Graham Nash’s classic song “Our House,” but it was last week

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3:28

"My Dear Companion"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/08

Most of the world heard “My Dear Companion” when it was featured on the 1987 Trio album released by superstars Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, with songwriting credits going to Kentucky balladeer Jean Ritchie.That creation story for the song is accurate, as far as it goes. Ritchie wrote her tune in 1963, and 10 years later it was among the first things The Flood played when the band started coming together. The Kentucky ConnectionOlder members of the band often talked about being at

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2:30

All Set for the Big New Year's Eve Birthday Bash!

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2023/12/05

Not many bands that can brag of being active for 50 years, but The 1937 Flood is celebrating its Golden Anniversary this year. And we’re hoping you will come out and join the fun!Alchemy Theatre’s Mike Murdock and Nora Ankrom — the kind folks who brought The Flood in to be part of the wonderful “Bright Star” production last summer — are hosting The Flood's 50th Birthday Party this New Year’s Eve. The fun starts that night at 7:30 at the Geneva Kent Center for the Arts, 80 Holley Ave.The band will

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