"Love Will Keep Us Alive"

 After we Floodified a version of “Peaceful Easy Feeling” earlier this year, we started looking around for another Eagles tune we might bring into the repertoire. That’s when Randy Hamilton stepped up and said, “I might have one.” The old Eagles song “Love Will Keep Us Alive” is his sister’s favorite tune — in fact, Randy sang it at her wedding a while back — and when he started singing for us, it just naturally slipped into a Flood groove. Here from last week’s rehearsal is Randy leading the way!

"I'm Walkin'"

 It was towards the end of a rollicking rehearsal, when between songs the guys start talking about what they plan to do in the week ahead. Danny mentions that he’d been getting out to take his walk in the mornings before the heat sets in. That prompts Charlie to start singing that old Fats Domino song, “I’m walkin’, yes, indeed, and I’m talking’….” Danny — who by anybody’s definition is a walking jukebox — starts playing the old tune. Sam and Jack immediately pick up the vibe. Charlie reaches for the banjo to add a little pepper to the plot as Randy starts searching his memory bank for the words and melody — and suddenly the song seems to be arranging itself.

"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"

 Dave Peyton and Charlie first heard this great old Charlie Poole song back in the mid-1970s when they were lucky enough to regularly sit in with the good folks of The Kentucky Foothill Ramblers. That band’s founder — H. David Holbrook — was already a walking/talking encyclopedia of old-time music and taught us so many of those good old tunes. So it was only natural when The Flood got re-energized 30 years ago, this old tune was on the playlist. And it still is!