Midnight Special

 Nineteen years ago, when we went into the studio to record our third album engineered by the late, great George Walker, “Midnight Special” was the first number we laid down. After that, though, for some reason  the tune just sort of drifted out of the collective consciousness. That is, until lately. Our old buddy, Floodster Emeritus Paul Martin, has dropped into the jam sessions recently and it’s got us revisiting some of the good old folkier corners of our repertoire. Here’s a moment from a week or so ago.

Lulu's Back in Town

 We’ll be returning to one of our all-time favorite local venues next week, playing for the good folks up the hill at Woodlands Retirement Community. It’s a wonderful venue where we’ve played regularly for the past 20 years or more. And this time, our old buddy, Floodster Emeritus Paul Martin, is back to sit in with us. Here’s one of the tunes we’re dusting off for the evening, you know, just in case Lulu is in the audience.

Am I Blue?

 Over the years, many of renditions of this song have presented the tune slowly and deliberately, but that’s not our style. Anyone who knows us knows The Flood is not really dirge-friendly. In fact, years ago, our beloved co-founder Dave Peyton said that if The Flood had a spirit animal, it probably would be Leon Redbone. So, our take on “Am I Blue?” is how we imagine Brother Redbone would do it.

Dinah

 Can you ever hear someone smiling? Maybe. On this track, as we’re sitting around with one of the great Louis Armstrong’s favorite songs, “Dinah,” we bet you can hearing the grins going around the room as you listen to all the musical bantering, like Veezy playfully comping behind the vocals, and Danny’s happy passing chords under the solos. Joy has many expressions — and some of them just might be hummable.

Jamming with Josh Woods

 We were already having a righteous good time at Doug Chaffin’s house earlier this week when suddenly in walked a young guitar player who would ratchet things up to a whole new level of coolness. Now, Josh Woods is old friend of our newest Floodster, Danny Cox, but it turns out his roots go even deeper than that. That’s because we learned that Doug Chaffin used to regularly jam with Josh’s dad, John Woods. Needless to say, there were lots of stories between the tunes, but let’s focus on the tunes. Here are Danny and Josh trading choruses on some classic blues, including our rendition of Ray Charles’s “Hard Times.”