It was cold and dark night. Rain was pouring down, pounding against the window panes. It was just the kind of night made for the blues. But you know, there’s magic in music.That’s because the players have the power to change the mood in the room with their notes they choose to play.
It was cold and dark night. Rain was pouring down, pounding against the window panes. It was just the kind of night made for the blues. But you know, there’s magic in music.That’s because the players have the power to change the mood in the room with their notes they choose to play. Here’s Exhibit A. Just listen to how this first tune we played on that stormy night said goodbye to all those blues.
We’re always open to giving an old song a new sound and here’s a case in point. Listen to how the drumming by Jack Nuckols, our newest band mate, has added a distinctive new frame for this song that has been rattling through The Flood’s repertoire for decades now.
Of all the holidays, Halloween has the fewest carols, but Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox have brought us this one, a spooky tune that hit the U.S. pop charts no fewer than three different times in the 1960s and ‘70s.
When Hoagy Carmichael wrote this song on a cold, stormy night nearly a century ago now, he couldn’t have known how many people would a special warmth in his new tune. Just listen to the solos in this take from last week’s rehearsal and hear how Danny Cox, Sam St. Clair and visiting bassist Ian Nuckols each finds his own comfort in the congenial chords of “Georgia on My Mind.”
Here’s a song that was very important to a young Marty Robbins back in 1956. Marty was fresh out of the Navy at the end of World War II and working on a local TV show near his home in Arizona. That’s when an established star — West Virginia native Little Jimmy Dickens — discovered him and brought him to Columbia Records. A few years later, Robbins recorded this song and it cemented a career that — over the next quarter century — would see him record more than 500 songs on 60 albums.
Whenever Michelle Hoge comes back to visit her old band mates, as she did last week, this tune is among the ones we trot out. Just listen to how Michelle’s superb harmonies seal the deal on this song that Ivory Joe Hunter recorded 77 years ago this month.
