Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood

Last night, as we were preparing the tunes we’ll share this weekend in our duties as the house band for the monthly Route 60 Saturday Night show, we got to thinking about other Saturday nights we’ve known. You know, we love to tell how Grandma had a lot o

We in The Flood have always been huge fans of filmmaker Ken Burns, and we absolutely loved his latest PBS series on country music. Now, while The Flood itself has never claimed to play country music, we were thrilled that the breadth of Ken Burns’ series

The new CD we’re hoping to bring out before the end of the year will be our first all-instrumental album. (We’re thinking we’ll call it “Speechless.” Yeah, we do get a charge out of ourselves…) Anyway, one of the formative ideas of this new project is to

We first played at Taylor Books in Charleston about 20 years ago and we’ve loved coming back regularly even since, partly because it reminds us of our coffeehouse roots, but mostly because it’s simply a wonderful venue with happy, friendly patrons. Playin

We’re so excited that September is here, because September means we’re rolling out a brand new season of the 90-minute music variety show, Route 60 Saturday Night, at which The Flood is privileged to be the regular monthly house band. The next show is thi

We lost a dear friend this week. Margaret Ray passed away at her home in Greenbottom, WV, after a difficult bout of sickness. She just turned 64 last spring. Margaret came into our lives, gosh, 40 years ago, at those crazy music parties where The Flood bo

When it comes to movies, we are, of course, devout Coen brothers fans, starting with their masterpiece, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” from two decades ago. There Joel and Ethan Coen incorporated a wise and loving treatment of American roots music of the 19

We have loved the songs of Hoagy Carmichael for … well, forever. For instance, we started doing his great river anthem, “Up a Lazy River,” probably 25 years ago, and our rendition of the tune has evolved over the years. Originally, we did it has an instru

Sometimes in the best conversations, not a word is spoken, such as when a group of musicians sit in a circle and listen to each other. In this little confab from last night’s rehearsal you can hear those wild, wordless ideas being exchanged by Sam St. Cla

Some tunes have their own long, strange stories for how they end up The Flood’s songbag. Here’s one. Back in 1952, blues great Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins recorded a sweet, mournful number called “Jesus, Will Come By Here,” but the song went largely unnoticed