The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

Our Flood brother Danny Cox and his sweet wife Tami are on vacation this week, but before they hit to the road, we had to give them a good Flood set-off. Here’s a little traveling music, the last tune of last week’s rehearsal.

About the Song

When M... more

Woody Guthrie once wrote that a song is just “a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.”

“When you sit down with a couple of friends,” he continued, “and you’ve all got your guitars parked under a sh... more

Three summers ago when Charlie Bowen took his first tremulous steps into the world of banjocity, he bought a six-string banjo … and immediately got grief.

“That ain’t no banjo!” one friend declared. “That’s just a guitar with delusions of grandeur. ... more

Since it is Memorial Day weekend, we wanted to offer something appropriate in this week’s podcast.

Of course, in the Floodisphere, our spiritual inclinations generally lean more toward a rambunctious New Orleans jazz funeral than to a little church... more

The Flood band room is usually a rather raucous place — rocking tunes, loud talk, lots of laughter — but often that mood can turn on a dime to something softer, even almost fragile.

We hadn’t done this old Jackson Browne song for years, but somethi... more

This great late-‘60s Lovin’ Spoonful tune is the perfect opportunity to answer readers’ requests for another little sample from Danny Cox’s latest reunion with his old guitar-pickin’ buddy Bobby Murnahan. Just listen and at the end this track you’ll ... more

We knew the band room was going to rock last week as soon as we saw Danny Cox was bringing along his life-long buddy, guitarist Bobby Murnahan, who was visiting from Colorado.

As noted here earlier, Danny and Bobby have known each other since before... more

A half dozen years after his death at beginning of the horrid Covid pandemic, songwriter John Prine is still very much on the minds of the folks in The Flood band room.

In fact, every spring since the sad April 2020 day of his passing, John’s wonder... more