"Backwater Blues"

 We just barely had a quorum on this particular evening — Sam and Jack were still on vacation — but Danny, Randy and Charlie held down the fort and, as we say around here, whenever three or more gather in its name, it’s The Flood.

"Deep Ellum Blues"

 It’s kinda hard to get a quorum in the band room when summer travel season rolls around. In fact, it’s been three weeks now since all five of us have been together. Here, from that session, was our bon voyage to each other.

"Green Rocky Road"

 The Flood has gone fully folkie on this one. Jack has switched from his snare and brushes to his fiddle and Charlie’s on the five-string. We’re paying tribute to Dave Van Ronk’s signature tune, which itself was built round a children’s play party song that known throughout the South for more than a century.

"All of Me"

 Nothing gets us all the the same page faster than a good old jazz standard from the 1930s.

"Moscow Night"

 Here’s our take on an artifact from the Cold War, a Russian melody that we learned when it made its debut on American radios in the 1960s.

"Yellow Dog Blues"

 There are a lot of train songs out there, but none of them will take us quite as far as this one. Come with us to where the Southern’ll cross the Yellow Dog!

"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone"

 Around here, the best night of the week is whatever night we’re all getting together to pick. Everyone always comes in the room ready to rock. But some nights? Well, those night swing even more than usual. Last week, for instance, Danny Cox seemed to have a whole barrel of new riffs to try out on his guitar, and Jack Nuckols was absolutely cooking on his snare and high-hat. And, man, but it seemed like Randy Hamilton was rocking before he even got his bass out of the case. Just listen to how Randy’s walking bass lines puts a strut and a glide in the great old Shelton Brooks tunes from the Roarin’ Twenties. Shoot, you can probably hear Charlie grinning while he's singing.