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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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3:45

"Mama, You Been on My Mind"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/10/18

Music’s most famous breakup in the late 20th century was surely the failed love affair of youngsters Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan. Or at least it was the most productive parting on record.Following their split, 20-year-old Dylan wrote some his most plaintive songs of the era. “Don't Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Boots of Spanish Leather,” “Tomorrow is a Long Time” and “One Too Many Mornings, “Ballad in Plain D” and more were all clearly about Suze.One of the lesser known of Bob’s breakup ballads

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5:57

A Cool Way to Warm Up

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/10/11

Before Floodster Emerita Vanessa Coffman left the band, she taught the guys her mom’s favorite tune, a 1948 jazz standard.Everyone fully expected when the talented young saxophonist drifted away last year to pursue other interested that the song — “Black Coffee” — would go with her. However, then Danny Cox took up the tune and, with his guitar, gave it a new chapter in the Floodisphere.In fact, nowadays that same song often is an especially tasty way to start a Flood rehearsal, as this track from a

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2:46

Riverfront Redux

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/10/08

Fifteen years ago this week, The Flood was back at a favorite venue — Huntington’s Harris Riverfront Park — to celebrate the visit by a beautiful riverboat, the Belle of Cincinnati, and to entertain her passengers. It was a return engagement for both the boat and the band. Hospice of Huntington was so pleased with The Flood’s performance the previous year when it entertained those who came out for a sold-out fund-raising dinner cruise that the folks hired everyone back for a repeat performance. As

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4:18

"To Love Somebody"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/10/04

In the mid-1960s, the young British songwriter Barry Gibb was in New York City for the first time when he was visited at the Waldorf Astoria by one of his musical heroes: soul/R&B superstar Otis Redding.Redding reportedly loved Gibb’s work and came to urge him to write a song for him to record. Legend has it that immediately after they met, Gibb went downstairs and, on a hotel piano, thrashed out “To Love Somebody,” rushing back to offer it to Otis.Sadly, before getting the opportunity to sing

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5:21

That New/Old Song About the Ohio...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/28

A Flood Watch reader last week wrote, “Hey, recently y’all did a new song about the Ohio River, but I can’t remember what it was called. Can you help me?”Charlie Bowen gave her directions to last summer’s podcast that featured the song she was thinking of — it’s called “Shawneetown” — but her note was still on his mind when the band gathered later that evening for its weekly rehearsal.That’s why, when manager/videographer Pamela Bowen filmed a few tunes from the session, this song was one she

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4:40

"Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/27

Earning their chops in medicine shows and with minstrel troupes in the late 1890s, brothers Frank and Bert Leighton wrote and/or arranged many ragtime pieces for use in vaudeville.Among their work was a 1912 version of “Frankie and Johnny,” penned with partner Ren Shields, that would set the tone for many future renditions of the song, including a monster hit a decade and half later for Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers.The song that Poole and his pals released as “Leaving Home” on

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4:03

Joy with Floodster Emeritus Paul Martin

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/21

A surprise visit from Floodster Emeritus Paul Martin turned this week’s rehearsal into a happy reunion.Paul became active with the band nearly a decade ago. He was fundamental in recording and engineering The Flood’s two most recent albums (Live in Concert and Speechless).He also played a huge part in the guys’ several years as the house band in the good ol’ Route 60 Saturday Night music variety shows starting in 2017.But in 2021, demands of work and family required Paul to greatly reduce his

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4:25

"Love Will Keep Us Alive"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/20

A decade after what fans feared would be the last flight of The Eagles — SoCal’s ultimate 1970s soft rockers — band mates Timothy Schmit and Don Felder teamed up with friends to try to create a new band, one they wanted to call “The Malibu Men’s Choir.”Well, that effort failed — the new group never got off the ground — but their songwriting collaboration with Jim Capaldi and Paul Carrack did produce a hit for a re-energized Eagles when the band rebounded for its 1994-96 “Hell Freezes Over” Tour.As

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4:01

"I'm Walkin'"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/13

It all began toward the end of a rollicking rehearsal when between songs the guys started talking about what they planned to do in the week ahead. Danny mentioned that lately he had been getting out early to take his walks in the morning before the heat set in. That prompted Charlie to start singing that Fats Domino song, “I’m walkin’, yes, indeed, and I’m talkin’ ‘bout you ‘n’ me…”. Well, Danny — who by anybody’s definition is a walking jukebox — started playing the old tune. Sam and Jack quickly

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4:57

Singing Out for Doug Chaffin

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/07

For dozens of years, a favorite annual event in the Floodisphere has been playing each September at the Fraley Festival at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Ky.Floodster Emeritus Doug Chaffin — who for decades played bass behind festival founders Annadeene and J.P. Fraley — was a fixture at the yearly gathering almost since its beginning in 1976.A quarter of a century ago when Doug joined The Flood, he saw to it that his new band mates were regulars too.Well, everyone knew the September 2024

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3:29

"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/09/06

The first time Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers walked into a recording studio in New York City, they blew the doors off the place.It was July 27, 1925, and the first record by the three of them — banjoist Poole, fiddler Posey Rorer, whom he had met in West Virginia eight years earlier, and guitarist Norman Woodlief — sold more than 100,000 copies.That was raging success in anyone’s book. It is especially true, considering that at the time there were only about 6,000 phonographs in the

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4:06

"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/30

The Roarin’ Twenties were in full swing and the stock market was reaching new record highs a hundred years ago when vaudevillian Jimmy Cox wrote his cautionary tale about the fickleness of fortune and friendship.“Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" was copyrighted in 1923, but it was another four years before the first known publication appeared, with the 1927 recording by a little known jazzman named Bobby Leecan.Two others — an obscure vocal quartet called The Aunt Jemima Novelty Four and

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5:08

"Harvest Moon," a Neil Young Classic

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/23

Having known each other since high school, Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox have bonds and shared musical instincts that bring lots of riches to our room.Whenever Randy and Dan put a song on the table — as they did with “Deep River Blues” and “Sunny,” as they did with “Ready for the Times to Get Better,” “Windy and Warm” and “When You Say Nothing at All” — they usually already have an arrangement started. It’s ready for the rest of us to just jump on board and ride!That certainly was the case last week

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7:31

"Careless Love"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/16

Here’s a tune that has touched the hearts and minds of more than a hundred years’ worth of Flood heroes.At the very start of the 20th century, it was one of the best-loved numbers in the repertoire of jazz legend Buddy Bolden down in the hot, dark streets of New Orleans.A couple decades later up in Memphis, W.C. Handy co-opted it, copyrighting a variation after he heard an old guy singing it in a railroad station.It was one of the first songs waxxed when the recording revolution began in the 1920s

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12:31

That Last Day with Roger

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/13

Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen could not know it, of course, but 11 years ago this week the pair of them spent their last afternoon with the man who had been their dear friend for nearly a half century, fellow Flood founder Roger Samples.On a perfectly suitable-for-framing Saturday in the summer of 2013, the Peytons and the Bowens trekked from their Huntington homes to Mount Sterling, Ky., to be with Roger and his wife, Tammy.They would always remember it as a day of laughs and food, of stories and,

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2:57

Conversations in 4/4 Time

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/09

Chatter is everywhere when the band gathers each week for rehearsal at the Bowen House. News, gossip, jokes. But the best conversations usually don’t involve words at all.The Flood Zone — like most tight-knit groups of friends — has developed its own language. It is a shorthand in which a grin and a nod could mean, “Wow — great solo. Cool new stuff!” while a shrug and a chuckle could tell everyone, “Oops — sorry about that, guys. Coulda sworn I knew what key we’re in!”But beyond gestures and facial

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4:45

“W(h)inin’ Boy” and His Mysteries

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/08/02

In 1938, three years before his death, the legendary Jelly Roll Morton sat down to record a series of Library of Congress interviews with noted folklorist Alan Lomax, who called the results “a virtual history of the birth pangs of jazz as it happened in the New Orleans of the turn of the century.”Along the way, Morton elaborated on his narrative with various songs, including one he called “Winin’ Boy Blues,” a tune that contains more anomalies than a Salvador Dali canvas.You can start with the

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4:17

It's Also >Fiddling< Jack Nuckols...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/31

So much of the band’s repertoire these days is jazzed by Jack Nuckols’ dynamic drumming. Tunes that were thought to be retired from The Flood set lists suddenly are back with a whole new burst of verve.Meanwhile, certain musical muscles that Jack thought were long retired also are being reawakened. That is because The Flood has got Nuckols fiddling again.In the Old Days…Back in the 1970s, when he was a regular at the Bowen Bashes where The Flood was born, Jack was part of the parties’ circle of

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2:12

"Took My Gal a-Walkin'"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/29

In our circle of talented friends back in the 1970s, whenever the moment called for a Charlie Poole song, we knew exactly on whom to call. H. David Holbrook and his powerful, popular Kentucky Foothill Ramblers string band covered the best of the Charlie Poole North Carolina Ramblers songbook, introducing so many of us to that marvelous old-time music of the 1920s.And despite KFR’s pronounced Poole supremacy in our extended musical family, the fledgling Flood occasionally could swipe a tune off that

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14:45

The Flood Forum (our educational bits...)

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/27

A standing joke in our world is that the band makes The Big Bucks from grant money scored by the Flood Education Department, mainly when we tell stories and history of the songs during our shows.That’s a lie, of course. There are not even little bucks in such blather, but we still like to rattle on about what we’ve found in our song research.Last night’s show at Woodlands, for instance, afforded us a lovely opportunity to discuss the connection we’ve discovered between three of our favorite early

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