New Tunes for Doug Chaffin

We open this week’s podcast with Doug Chaffin’s version of his friend J.P. Fraley’s tune, “Steptown,” a new favorite of ours! “Flood Lite” is what we call it whenever we play as the trimmed-down, half-pint trio version of the band. This week we had people away with illness, work and vacations, so Doug, Randy and Charlie decided to have a Flood Lite practice session. And since Doug and Randy both live in Ashland, it made more sense for the one of Charlie to drive there than for the two of them to drive over here to Huntington, so we met in Doug’s living room last night, and maybe it was the change of venue, but forawhatever reason, the rehearsal brought out a lot of new tunes. For instance, after “Steptown” is another one Doug has brought to the mix lately, an old party tune that he calls “Shady Side of Town.” Of course, no Flood evening is complete until Doug reaches for that sweet little Paul Reed Smith electric guitar he brought to the band in 2016. Doug switches to guitar for his rendition of “Waltz Around the World,” then we go out on his rocking “Lady Be Good.”