Jam Logs, the Podcast of The 1937 Flood

In The Flood, we're always trying new things and these days, in our latest incarnation, vocal harmonies are especially interesting to us. It's certainly understanding, considering that our two newest members -- Paul Martin and Randy Hamilton -- are both excellent singers, in addition, of course, to being first-rate instrumentalists. Last weekend, when we played a show on the Valley Gem riverboat as she sailed down the Ohio, we had two Floodsters out sick and those strong voices really saved the show. Here's a sample of the vocal harmonies from last night's rehearsal as we worked on a tune that is likely to be on our next CD when we begin working on it this fall.

As we've said before, sometimes we let tunes get away from us. We'll do 'em for years, and then for some reason, they just drift out of the lineup. Here's in a case in point, a wonderful old Duke Ellington number that we used to play in nearly every show. Well, last night we were in a nostalgic mood and, lo and behold, "Don't Get Around Much Any More" popped right back into our heads.

We're having a beautiful fall here in the Ohio Valley. Well, shoot, all Appalachian autumns are gorgeous. But, as October 2015 rolls gently to its conclusion, the band was in a decidedly quiet autumnal mood last night, and nobody expressed it better than our Michelle Lewis.

You know, in The Flood, we're all about that bass. For instance, last night, our band manager, Pamela Bowen, told a joke she'd found on Facebook about the therapeutic effects of bass playing when it comes to marriage counseling, of all things, before you knew it, the effects of that fine story carried over right into Randy Hamilton's bass solo in the very next tune we played. And... well, here -- listen for yourself.