HeyJaredJam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood
Freebies from The 1937 Flood, West Virginia's Most Eclectic String Band! The Flood, the Original Old Boy Band, has been around since the 1970s playing their own brand of mountain music, from blues and jugband to swing and traditional folk.
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"One Horse Town" (opens the original)
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Here’s the latest treasure that Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox have brought to The Flood’s table, a Charlie Starr composition from Alabama that resonates powerfully in our own Appalachian hills as well.
"Time in a Bottle" (opens the original)
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Here’s an audio snapshot of the end of last week’s rehearsal. We’d had a wonderful evening singing with Flood sweetheart Kathy Castner who had made one of her rare visits in from Cincinnati. At the beginning of this track you can hear folks packing up their instruments and saying their goodbyes. But at the same time, over in the corner, Danny Cox and his guitar have one more tune to do with Kathy. Listen as the guys realize what’s happening and join in for this sweet final moment of the night.
"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" (opens the original)
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Here’s a tune that will be on the set list tomorrow night when The Flood opens the festivities at this year’s Diamond Teeth Mary blues festival in downtown Huntington. It’s a 1913 composition by the great Shelton Brooks. And if that name sounds familiar, you might be remembering last week’s podcast when we talked about Brooks’ best-known composition, the phenomenal “Darktown Strutters’ Ball.” As noted last week, by the time Brooks wrote that, his songwriting chops were already firmly established
"Darktown Strutters' Ball" (opens the original)
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We had our old buddy Jim Rumbaugh in the band room recently. Jim will be sitting in with us when The Flood plays at the latest Diamond Teeth Mary blues festival next week. Last week, after we’d worked on the blues tunes we’ll do for the show, we switched this rocking old Roaring Twenties number from Shelton Brooks. It all went well until I tried to tag it with a classic Chuck Romine ending. Hey, who knew there’d be spelling?!
"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?" (opens the original)
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As we start thinking about what The Flood should play for its set at this year’s Diamond Teeth Mary blues festival here in Huntington, one song seems like a natural. It’s a near-century-old tune that touched the lives of two great West Virginia jazzmen. Big band composer Don Redmond, who hailed from the eastern part of the Mountain State, wrote the song in 1929. Then a dozen years later, the phenomenal saxophonist Chu Berry from Wheeling recorded it in his very last studio session.
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