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"I Almost Lost My Mind"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - March 15, 2024 09:19 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSome songs in our repertoire we do only when “The Chick Singer” — Floodster emerita Michelle Hoge — is in the room. Our take on this good old Ivory Joe Hunter classic is at the top of that list. This track is from last December when Michelle had driven in from her Cincinnati area home to rehear...
"Handy Man"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - March 08, 2024 11:12 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingYou never really forget the songs of your youth. Charlie was 10 years old in the summer of ‘59 when this tune hit the radio. It was such a hoot to take it for a spin at a recent Flood rehearsal.
"Make You Feel My Love"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - March 01, 2024 10:59 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’re late to the party on this tune. Bob Dylan wrote this more than a quarter of century ago, but we just started doing it a few weeks ago. However, it’s suddenly landed solidly in the repertoire. Here’s our take on “Make You Feel My Love.”
"Needed Time"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - February 23, 2024 11:32 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’ve been doing this song for a very long time, and it’s always different, depending on who’s in the room. In this rendition from a rehearsal a few weeks ago, our man Danny Cox makes it special with his signature guitar stylings.
'St. Louis Blues"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - February 16, 2024 10:24 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Flood has been doing versions of this song for decades. This rendition was the first song of the evening at a Flood rehearsal a few weeks ago. Riding on the infectious rhythm laid down by Randy Hamilton and Jack Nuckols and framing the solos by Danny Cox and Sam St. Clair, the number herald...
"Ready for the Times to Get Better"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - February 09, 2024 12:03 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis 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. Now, neither was a member of The Flood yet — Randy wou...
Sweet Georgia Brown
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - February 02, 2024 11:15 ★★★★★ - 1 rating“Sweet Georgia Brown” entered The Flood’s repertoire soon after the band began in the 1970s and in the ensuing decades the tune has come back into the playlist again and again, serving as a sweet showcase for dozens of Flood soloists over the years. This latest rendition, recorded at a rehearsa...
Ain't No Free
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - January 26, 2024 11:21 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt 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 in honor several weeks ago at our big New Year’s Eve birthday bash at...
(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - January 19, 2024 10:15 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere’s a tune with some mighty deep roots in the Floodisphere. Two decades after our heroes, The Coasters, released this song in July 1957, The Flood started fiddling with it on another summer night. After that, though, it went to sleep again for, oh, a half century or so. Then not long ago, it...
'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - January 12, 2024 11:10 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhenever 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” big birthday bash — we always get him to take us on a ride on is favorite Bob Dylan tune.
"Sunny"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - January 05, 2024 11:20 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEver 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.” So, Danny worked out the chords, Jack took u...
"Raise a Ruckus Tonight"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - December 29, 2023 12:44 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere’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 our big “Flood at 50” birthday bash on New Year’s Eve at Alchemy Theatre. That’s a night we’re so eager for that we actually started putting this song through its p...
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - December 22, 2023 11:29 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOkay, we have a Christmas confession to make. 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 it’s mainly it’s just the nature of Christmas songs themselves. The chord patterns are not especially easy to remember and...
You Got Me Slippin'
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - December 15, 2023 11:11 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen we roll in tomorrow night for our latest gig at Sal’s Speakeasy in Ashland, Ky., we’re bringing with us one of our all time favorite party tunes. The song we call “You Got Me Slippin’” is loosely based on a classic Jimmy Reed tune from 65 years ago at the dawn of rock ’n’ roll.
My Dear Companion
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - December 08, 2023 11:12 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNominally, this is a traditional song about abandoned love, but back in the 1960s when she reworked it, the late Jean Ritchie wrote new lyrics that went well beyond that to the larger theme of loss in general. Because of those deeper expressions, The Flood has often thought of this tune in time...
"Good as I Been to You (You Gonna Quit Me Blues)"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - December 01, 2023 11:15 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe started doing the song in the mid-1990s, right after we heard it on a then-new Bob Dylan album. We were looking for an easy, happy little tune that we can warm up on, letting everybody just stretch out a little. Well, nowadays it just as likely to turn up as a last song of the night — as it w...
But Not for Me
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - November 24, 2023 11:21 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s a kind of counter-love song — a great anthem to angst — and George Gershwin’s “But Not For Me” was ahead of its time. He and his brother Ira wrote the thing in 1930 for a popular stage musical called “Girl Crazy.” But it didn’t make the Billboard charts until a dozen years later — after Geo...
"July, You're a Woman"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - November 17, 2023 11:12 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCharlie played this song for Dave Peyton on the first night they jammed together at a New Year’s Eve party 50 years ago. It was the one of the best tunes in their repertoire for their earliest gigs. After that, though, the song dropped out of the mix for many decade, but the one night this fall...
"Birth of the Blues"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - November 10, 2023 11:01 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe have several new tunes to bring tomorrow night for our latest gig at Sal’s Speakeasy in Ashland, Ky., including this one that the great Ray Henderson wrote almost a hundred years ago. This song was first recorded by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra in the mid-1920s, but its real claim to fa...
"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - November 03, 2023 09:36 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere’s a reason why The Flood’s rendition of this Dylan classic sounds different from Bobby’s version — or anyone else’s take on the tune, for that matter. That’s because back in the early 1980s, when Roger and Charlie started playing around with opening chord progression here, they thought th...
Jelly Roll Baker
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - October 27, 2023 10:17 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis sassy Lonnie Johnson song was written and recorded 80 years ago as a rhythm and blues hit, but we owe our version to our folk music heroes of the 1960s. To this day, it’s one of those perfect warmup tunes for us, because it provides plenty of stretching-out room for solos by everyone in th...
Yas Yas Duck
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - October 20, 2023 10:39 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWow, Jack Nuckols’ drumming has brought a whole new class of cool to the old band room. Whether it’s his tasty solos, or rocking along with Randy Hamilton’s bass under Charlie Bowen’s vocals, or making his wise and witty contributions to the ensemble supporting Danny Cox and Sam St. Clair’s sol...
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - October 13, 2023 09:50 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis Bob Dylan classic has been in the Floodisphere forever — Roger and Charlie used to sing it together a half century ago — but only recently has it made a move to be in the regular repertoire. That’s when Randy stepped to sing his signature harmonies and Danny and Sam started doing double du...
Opus One
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - October 06, 2023 09:55 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s the end of a fun evening at the Bowen house, but nobody is quite ready to quit yet. Jack starts padding a cool swing rhythm on the house bongos and Randy jumps in with a bass line that fits it to a T. Charlie gets the chords going, just as Danny flies in with that cool melody over Sam’s sm...
"Tear It Down"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - September 29, 2023 11:11 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen our friend, the remarkable percussionist Jack Nuckols, dropped in to visit with the band last week, we immediately drew him into the circle. First, we passed him the house bongos to play, but when a jug band tune came around, we put spoons in his hands. Jack was rocking it hard, we were di...
"Buddy Bolden's Blues"
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - September 22, 2023 10:41 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere’s a tune that has drifted in and out of The Flood repertoire many times over the years. It drifted back in recently when we gathered on a sultry summer night that had a decidedly New Orleans tang to it. Here’s our take on “Buddy Bolden’s Blues.”
I'm Beginning to See the Light
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - September 15, 2023 10:10 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur latest Duke Ellington number is a great vehicle for sassy solos by everyone in the band. Here’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light.”
Twisted Laurel
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - September 08, 2023 10:23 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWell, this has been Bowen’s “Banjo Summer.” In early June, he dropped in to visit Paul Callicoat at Route 60 Music and, on a whim, Charlie traded an old guitar he had for a shiny new five-string that he spied on the wall there. Charlie didn’t know a thing about banjo, but he started watching so...
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - September 01, 2023 10:41 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe always try to have a few novelty tunes in our back pocket to lighten the mood at shows — or just to amuse ourselves at the weekly rehearsals. And this one, of course, is how we get all that big grant money, because it’s about history. Well, sort of…. There is some dispute about whether Georg...
Autumn Leaves
Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood - August 25, 2023 09:38 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis song has marvelous lyrics by the great Johnny Mercer, as Floodster Emerita Michelle Hoge demonstrates whenever she’s in the room. But she’s not here to sing it, the song also is an extraordinary vehicle as an instrumental. Here from last week’s rehearsal, Danny Cox lays down a lovely melod...
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