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. These podcasts feature Flood Freebies, recordings captured on the fly, as it were, at the guys' weekly jam sessions in Huntington, WV
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My Blue Heaven
We had a wonderful evening playing at Woodlands retirement community last weekend — we always do have fun there — and a special time whenever we go up the hill to Woodlands is the half hour or so before the show when we get to go back to do some tunes for the folks in the health care unit. These are residents who are right now aren’t physically up to coming down to the concert hall for our regular show, so we bring a bit of the show to them. Every time it is such a treat for us to get them singing along on songs from their youth — and from ours too. A particular favorite from last weekend’s visit was Michelle’s rocking rendition of “My Blue Heaven,” which was a hit for the great Gene Austin more than 90 years ago. And we revisit the song here in these moments from last night’s weekly rehearsal.