Our 500th Episode

This episode of the podcast is about the podcast itself. It was 12 years ago when our harmonicat Sam St. Clair first suggested we try our hand at what at the time was still a relatively new idea: to have a weekly podcast, featuring a tune from a recent Flood rehearsal with maybe a little bit of commentary as an introduction. We thought it would just be a little hoot, perhaps a fun diversion to while away a couple of cold winter months. Honestly, we never imagined we’d still be doing this thing all this time later, but, well, the podcast caught on. These days we have listeners throughout the country and even around the world, from England to Brazil to Japan and elsewhere. And today marks the 500th episode. Now, 499 episodes ago, when we started this long, strange trip, the first song we ever featured was our funky rendition of a tune we had only then started playing around with, W.C. Handy’s 1914 jazz classic, “St. Louis Blues.” So, to celebrate today’s episode number 500, let’s revisit that song. Here’s the year 2020 edition, with Michelle’s lead vocal and solos by Doug, Paul and Vanessa. It’s “St. Louis Blues.”