Peggy Day

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 the night — is like that for us. It’s just a big old musical grin. Here’s the 2018 edition of “Peggy Day.”

Honeysuckle Rose

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 long ago, with Randy’s rocking bass and an especially tasty solo by Doug.

Spoon River

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 set for the big show to be a real sentimental journey, about memories and homecomings. For instance, here’s a lovely homecoming tune we have on tap for Saturday night, “Spoon River” by the great songwriter Michael Peter Smith. Remember, it’s Route 60 Saturday Night, this Saturday night, at Route 60 Music Co., 60 Peyton St. in Barboursville. This month’s guest artists are singer-songwriter Kate Long and the new duo Siamese Cycle. The 90-minute show starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 and this month, all proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington. Come on out for good times for a good cause!

Solid Gone

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 Samples learned it from, well, Dave and Charlie. Over the years, the song has popped up on Flood recordings in all of our four decades together. Five years ago, it was included on the band’s fifth CD, the one we called “Cleanup & Recovery.” And even more recently, the latest rendition of the song is on the set list for the numbers The Flood intends to perform at the next “Route 60 Saturday Night” later this month. Here’s “Solid Gone” from a recent rehearsal.