The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

Recognizing a tune that many of us think ought to be the national anthem, The Flood is celebrating America’s 250th birthday with Woody Guthrie’s most beloved song, as seen in Pamela Bowen’s video below:

Just nine years after President Herbert Hoover... more

When the room needs a respite from the band’s frequent fare of loud and raucous tunes, Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox always have just what the doctor ordered.

Friends since high school, these two seem to be able to read each other’s mind when it come... more

Rabon Delmore never learned to drive a car, so it was always his older brother Alton behind the wheel as they tooled between gigs in the early days of their career during the Great Depression.

That routine played a big part in The Delmore Brothers’ ... more

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