Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood

We don’t usually give homework assignments, but if you’re coming to this weekend’s Route 60 Saturday Night show, we want you to be ready for our special end-of-show sing-along. We tested it out for the first time last weekend at Taylor Books in Charleston

Charleston’s Taylor Books is a fun venue for us, in part because it reminds us of the coffeehouse culture of our youth. The Flood grew up in sweet spots like this, where the stage was a wide space at the end of the long room, the tables were tucked in nea

When we’re preparing a show — and we’re getting ready for a good one on Saturday, March 9, at Taylor Books in Charleston — we’re always on the lookout for tunes that would be especially good to open or close a set with. What we want here is a lively song

As we prepare for a busy spring season of shows, we’re working on new material, but also revisiting some of our older tunes. This is a useful exercise for us, because it helps us avoid losing some songs. A case in point is this great old Ivory Joe Hunter

The Flood is fixin’ to awaken from its long winter’s nap soon — we’ve got a busy set of Saturdays scheduled next month — and we’ll kick everything off by returning to our favorite capitol city venue, Charleston’s Taylor Books on Saturday, March 9. Please,

Our next album, which we’ve begun recording this winter in the mountain hide-away studio at the home of Floodster Paul Martin, will be a new idea for us: an all-instrumental CD, especially featuring some of the tunes that Doug Chaffin has brought us over

At the start of a rehearsal, we’re usually thinking about getting our fingers limbered up for the night’s picking, but voices need to be warmed up too. When we can, we try to remember to start with a few tunes that will also get our vocal cords in gear. H

In New York in a single year — 1925 — Tin Pan Alley composer Ray Henderson wrote three — count ‘em THREE — classics in the great American songbook: “Bye Bye Blackbird,” “Has Anybody Seen My Girl?” (“Five foot two, eyes of blues…”) and “I’m Sitting on Top

After all these years, Doug Chaffin continues to amaze us. Whether playing fiddle or guitar, mandolin or upright bass, Doug has had a distinctive voice in the band for 20 years now. And with great regularity, he continues bring new tunes to us. For insta

We have some ambitious plans for the new year, including several recording projects. Among our plans when we get back into the studio is to record a collections of songs from and about our home state. And of course there could be no worthwhile assemblage