The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast
1) Heart-to-Heart Connections
Some songs just seem to go right to the heart of what connects us all, especially when the subject is hard times.This song from a recent Flood rehearsal is often considered a classic example of the ol...Show More
2) The Night's Sweetest Spot
Sometimes the chemistryâs right, the stars align â however you want to say it â and the best song of the night is one you didnât even plan to play.At a recent rehearsal, for instance, the band came in...Show More
3) "Pecan Pie & Sassafras Tea"
Redbud trees and mockingbirds, honeysuckle and sassafras. For many a West Virginian, these are emblems of home.And pecan pie. You canât forget pecan pie. But you gotta be careful how you say it. How y...Show More
4) Positively Percolating
Our guitarist Danny Cox paints pictures with his sound. He has a positively uncanny capacity for discovering ways to bring out the colors and textures in all kinds of melodies and to plant stories in ...Show More
5) 'It's a Sin to Tell a Lie'
By the end of his life, Billy Mayhew might well have wished heâd never written that damned song.Oh, it was a hit, all right â the only one the old Baltimore vaudeville piano man ever wrote â introduce...Show More
6) Merry Christmas with a New Winter Anthem
Wrapping up a recent Christmas party at which we had a houseful of friends and neighbors (including our buddy Jim Rumbaugh sitting in as a guest artist), The Flood unwrapped its new anthem to winter. ...Show More
7) 'Come Back to Us, Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard'
It was 16 years ago tonight at the Christmas Eve-eve-eve party in the Bowen House that the late Dave Peyton gifted us with a classic rendition of his all-time favorite John Prine tune. And fortunately...Show More
8) Jolly Ol' Jim's Got His Yule Log Burnin'
Christmas is usually a pretty raucous time in our band room, with old friends coming back around and new friends ... well, new folks just starting to figure us out. Yes, indeed, we do tend to take tho...Show More
9) "For Baby (For Bobbie)"
The story goes that folkie John Denver was just 22 years old when he played at Arizonaâs Lumber Mill Club in Scottsdale and met a girl named Bobbie Wargo.The two had much in common. Both grew up in mi...Show More
10) We Never Wanna Call It a Night
At a good rehearsal â and, heck, thatâs just about every rehearsal nowadays â none of us really wants it to end. Oh, sure, we get tired â two hours of hard picking take a toll â but as Gladys Knight u...Show More