Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood

Back in the 1950s, Margaret Grant was well known in the country dance circles in the southwest of England. It was in her honor that Pat Shaw composed the classic "Margaret's Waltz,” the tune beautifully recorded by the celtic greats, The Boys of the Loug

Here’s a song with roots that are long and deep, going back well over a hundred years. The first printed reference to it was in 1911, when it was reported to be a favorite of New Orleans jazzmen in the legendary Buddy Bolden Band. Hundreds — maybe thousan

Welcome to the special Christmas Eve edition of The 1937 Flood podcast. You know, hardly a day goes by that we don’t think about our old friend and bandmate Joe Dobbs, who died a little over three years ago. But we especially miss Joe at this time of year

Here’s a song that has been with us since the earliest days of The Flood. The band was just coming together about the time that the late, great Steve Goodman released his version of it in 1972. Roger Samples, falling deeply in love with that album, learne

We’ll be sharing a bit of Christmas cheer this weekend at the final Route 60 Saturday Night show of the season. For our usual house band duties for the evening, we’re adding several seasonal tunes to the mix, like this classic that over the past 75 years

It’s going to be an especially good Route 60 Saturday Night later the month, because as part of our house band duties for the Dec. 15 show, we’re going to have songs featuring lead vocals by Michelle, by Randy and by Paul, all of which we were rehearsing

For us, some songs seem to exist just so we can tell each other how much we’re enjoying our evening together.  This little bit of Bob Dylan gold — a tiny tune that for more than a decade we’ve used as a warmup number or sometimes as the last song of

Sometimes a song is like a sweet little good-night kiss at the end of a great evening. For us, that tune is often Michelle’s version of the Fats Waller classic, “Honeysuckle Rose.” Here’s a short and sweet rendition at the end of rehearsal one night not l

We gearing up for this weekend’s November edition of Route 60 Saturday Night and since by then our favorite family holiday, Thanksgiving, will be just days away, we’re getting all nostalgic. And we figure you will be too, so we’re packing our house band s

One of the first tunes The Flood ever played – we’re talking the early 1970s, here – was “Solid Gone,” also called “Cannonball Blues.” Dave Peyton learned it from old Carter Family records. Charlie Bowen learned it from a 1960s Tom Rush recording. Roger S