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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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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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3:14

"Rag Mama"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/26

Eighty-nine years ago this week, a young North Carolinian walked into a New York recording studio as Fulton Allen and, after recording a few tunes, walked out again as “Blind Boy Fuller.” On the recording of his composition “Rag Mama” and two other songs pressed that day, the young man was accompanied by his mentor and blues tutor, the legendary Rev. Gary Davis. “When I first run across him,” Davis said years later, “he didn't know how to play but one piece and that was with a knife.”But with Davis’

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1:43

Celebrating the High-Flying Rose Riter

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/23

It was 19 years ago this week when The Flood met its den mother/soul sister. The irrepressible Rose Marie Riter hired the band to play at her 70th birthday party.The boys in the band knew they were in for something different when she told them the venue for the afternoon’s party: The Lawrence County Airpark, near Chesapeake, Ohio.“The, uh … why?” they asked.Rose intended, she told them, to celebrate her seven decades on the planet by leaping from an airplane.Planning AheadArrive early, she told the

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4:32

"Just Because"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/19

When Elvis Presley recorded “Just Because” in 1954 in Memphis’s Sun Studio, the 19-year-old rocker was revisiting a saucy novelty tune that was a monster hit five years earlier for a West Virginian known as “America’s Polka King.”Accordionist Frankie Yankovic — a native of Davis, WV, in Tucker County who recorded more than 200 songs and sold 30 million records — had just returned to his new home in Cleveland after four years of Army service in World War II, eager to resume what would be his 70-year

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5:22

Play That One About the Dog...

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast ·

2024/07/12

Often a song has a special meaning that has absolutely nothing to do with either its lyrics or its melody.The Flood’s tight connection to W.C. Handy’s 100-year-old “Yellow Dog Blues,” for instance, dates back to 2020 and the deep, dark days of the Covid-19 epidemic.With the whole world masked and distanced, the band couldn’t get together for its weekly gatherings. It was during the loneliness of that seemingly endless quarantine that Charlie Bowen got obsessed with trying to learn that

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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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