Each week The 1937 Flood, West Virginia's most eclectic string band, offers a free tune from a recent rehearsal, show or jam session. Music styles range from blues and jazz to folk, hokum, ballad and old-time. All the podcasts, dating back to 2008, are archived on our website; you and use the archive for free at: http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-podcastarchives.html <br/><br/><a href="https://1937flood.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">1937flood.substack.com</a>
The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast
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Each week The 1937 Flood, West Virginia's most eclectic string band, offers a free tune from a recent rehearsal, show or jam session. Music styles range from blues and jazz to folk, hokum, ballad and old-time. All the podcasts, dating back to 2008, are archived on our website; you and use the archive for free at: http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-podcastarchives.html <br/><br/><a href="https://1937flood.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">1937flood.substack.com</a>
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August 7, 2026
Gee, Baby, Weren't They Good to Us?
<p>As we start thinking about what The Flood should play for its set at the latest <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/ready-for-the-lady-with-diamond-teeth">Diamond Teeth Mary blues festival</a> here in Huntington later this month, <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">one song</a> seems like a natural. </p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">“Gee,Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?”</a> is a near-century-old tune that touched the lives of two great West Virginia jazzmen a dozen years apart.</p><p> Big band composer Don Redmond, who hailed from the eastern part of the Mountain State, wrote <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the song</a> in 1929. Then in 1941, the phenomenal saxophonist Chu Berry from Wheeling recorded it in his very last studio session. <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">Here’s The Flood’s latest take on the Redmond-Berry classic from last week’s rehearsal</a>.</p><p>About the Song</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/gee-baby-aint-i-good-to-you#details">As reported here earlier</a>, the mid-1920s had been good to Don Redman. Just barely out of his teens, he was already responsible for integrating the rhythmic approach of Louis Armstrong’s playing into the work of Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. </p><p>In 1927 Redman was wooed away from Henderson to join McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, the house band at the celebrated Greystone Ballroom in Detroit.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">“Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?”</a> was the first song that Don wrote for the Cotton Pickers. After its 1929 release, though, <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the tune</a> went into cold storage.</p><p>More than a decade passed before the next major jazz artist recorded <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the song</a>, and, as we say, it turned out to be yet another West Virginian.</p><p>Wheeling’s proud native son, tenor saxophonist Chu Berry, recorded <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the song</a> in 1941 on the flip side of his rendition of <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/on-the-sunny-side-of-the-street#details">“Sunny Side of the Street.”</a> (Sadly, it would be Berry’s last recording; an automobile accident in northern Ohio later that year ended his life at just 33.)</p><p>Two years later, <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">Don’s song</a> finally made The Big Time when Nat King Cole turned <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">“Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You?”</a> into a national hit, topping the 1943 R&B charts. Around the same time, Count Basie also adopted <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the song</a> as a favorite, using it to showcase his band’s various vocalists, including legends like Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams.</p><p>For more about <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast839.mp3">the song</a>, as well as about Redmond and Berry, see our earlier Flood Watch article <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/gee-baby-aint-i-good-to-you#details">by clicking here</a>.</p><p>Mark Your Calendar</p><p>The Flood will be at <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/ready-for-the-lady-with-diamond-teeth">the Diamond Teeth Mary Medicine Show</a> on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Heritage Station, 210 11th Street, in beautiful downtown Huntington. The guys are honored to open the festivities with a set at 6 p.m. </p><p>And we’re pleased that our old friend Jim Rumbaugh has agreed to sit in with us on bass, subbing for Randy Hamilton, who can’t make the gig.</p><p>And hey, we’re open to suggestions if you’d like to help up figure out our set list for the show. To get you in the mood, you can swing by the free <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-radioflood.html">Radio Floodango</a> music streaming service and turn on the band’s <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-blues-radioflood.html">Blues Channel</a> for a randomized playlist of the band’s bluesier bits over the years.</p><p>Oh, and remember we’ve now got ways to mobilize the ol’ Floodanago.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/putting-the-flood-in-your-pocket">Click here to find out how</a> to put the Flood radio on your computer desktop and on an iPhone to make your Flood fix always just a click away.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://1937flood.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">1937flood.substack.com</a>
July 31, 2026
Railroads on the Mind and on Down the Line
<p>Surely, no innovation in modern human history has gotten so deeply into our psyche — into our hearts and into our very minds — as the railroad.</p><p>Train imagery fills our art and music, symbolizing so many beginnings … and, well, endings. <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast838.mp3">Here’s a train tune from our folk-infused youth</a>.</p><p>About the Song</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/dusty-boxcar-wall#details">As reported here earlier</a>, singer/songwriter Eric Andersen introduced his <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast838.mp3">“Dusty Boxcar Wall”</a> in 1965 on his debut album for Vanguard Records, Today is the Highway.</p><p>A few years earlier, Andersen dropped out of college in Geneva, NY, and hitchhiked west to San Francisco to try his luck singing solo in North Beach coffeehouses and to seek out his heroes, the poets of the Beat Generation.</p><p>In liner notes for that first album, Stacey Williams said <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast838.mp3">“Dusty Boxcar Wall”</a> was written “on the Bay Bridge between Berkeley and San Francisco,” adding, “Eric had been performing at the Cabale coffeehouse in Berkeley with a city group that did country music, The Snopes County Camp Followers.”</p><p>Wanting to do a solo with the Snopes group, according to Williams, Andersen wrote “<a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast838.mp3">this archetypal song</a> of death, love and separation.” </p><p>For more about this seminal Eric Andersen <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast838.mp3">song</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/dusty-boxcar-wall#details">see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here</a>.</p><p>More Music, Please</p><p>If <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/dusty-boxcar-wall#details">this week’s podcast</a> has you in the mood for more tracks about trains, boy, do we have ya covered! Visit <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-radioflood.html">the free Radio Floodango</a> music streaming service, and under “The Special Blends,” <a target="_blank" href="http://www.1937flood.com/pages/bb-TrainSet-radioflood.html">click on “The Train Set.”</a> The link below tells you all about that particular project:</p><p>And if you want even more folk in your Flood Friday, turn on our free <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-folk-radioflood.html">Folk Channel.</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-folk-radioflood.html">Or just click here </a>to to take the express route to start that randomized rotation of more than a hundred folky Flood tracks recorded over the decades at jam sessions, rehearsals and gigs.</p><p>Finally, remember, we’ve now got cool ways to mobilize the ol’ Floodango. <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/putting-the-flood-in-your-pocket">Click here to find out how</a> to put The Flood’s radio activity on your computer desktop and on an iPhone. That way, your Flood fix will always be just a click away.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://1937flood.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">1937flood.substack.com</a>
July 24, 2026
"Murder of Mountains"
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/in-memoriam-dave-peyton-the-first">Dave Peyton</a> inspired our writing of <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast837.mp3">this song</a>.</p><p>West Virginia’s greatest defender — and her harshest critic — Dave spoke tirelessly from his popular newspaper columns and in his frequent radio and television appearances…</p><p>… but also anywhere else that people would listen, in coffee shops and at conferences, in living rooms and at dinner tables, on concert stages and in our band room between our weekly tunes.</p><p>Railing against what he saw as the relentless ravaging of the state, he’d say, “Sometimes I think the worst thing that ever happened to West Virginia was when somebody discovered coal.</p><p>“But they never stop,” he’d add. “First they came for the timber. Now, after they’re done murdering the mountains, they’ll find something else to take from us.”</p><p>Whispered Legacy</p><p>What bothered Dave as much as what they took was what the exploiters left behind: a paralyzing — if seldom-spoken — sense of guilt running through generations of Mountain State natives, a communal sorrow for not being able to stop the rape of our home.</p><p>“It is whispered if spoken at all,” as <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast837.mp3">our song</a> says:</p><p> Of a broken trust and a grief that must Be the cut that has wounded us all.</p><p>A half dozen years before <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/in-memoriam-dave-peyton-the-first">Peyton’s death in 2020</a>, his words inspired us, and <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast837.mp3">“Murder of Mountains” started taking shape.</a> With it now finally finished, we are pleased to have <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/7qNif10Pbeg?si=l7qjYX-k9hFO5G8L">it as a tribute to Dave</a> and to all he taught us.</p><p>“Star of the County Down”</p><p>The melody we use for <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast837.mp3">our new song</a> is <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/the-wonderful-world-of-joe-dobbs">the late Joe Dobbs</a>’ version of the Irish tune called “Star of the County Down,” and thereby hangs another tale.</p><p>Back in the early 1980s, when <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/when-joe-dobbs-dream-came-true">Joe’s Fret ‘n Fiddle music store</a> was still in its original location on Huntington’s West 14th Street, a bluegrass mandolin player from Boston was passing through and spent a few nights at the Dobbs house. During a jam session there, the lad played this tune, and Joe loved it. When asked about it, the man said, “It’s an Irish song, but we’ve Americanized it.”</p><p>A few months later at the next <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/birth-of-the-parties-that-birthed">Bowen Bash</a>, Joe taught it to the the rest of us, as you can hear in the above video (extracted, incidentally, from <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/our-back-pages">our Bowen Bash Legacy Film Series</a>). It turns out that Joe’s house guest had been taking lessons up in Boston from an Irish fiddler. “I guess that’s where he got it,” Joe said.</p><p>Anyway, for years, Joe and his Flood brothers played “Star of the County Down” in the same moody, stately manner as he had learned from that kind Yankee visitor. It was only later — decades later, in fact — that Joe learned just how “Americanized” the song had been.</p><p>Say What Now?</p><p>That was when another visitor — this one a fiddler from Ireland — later listened to Joe’s rendition and asked the name of the melody. He was surprised when Joe told him, “Why, that’s ‘Star of the County Down.’”</p><p>“Really?” the visitor said. “Well,” he added sheepishly, “there’s good news and bad news, Joe. The good news is that it’s really lovely! The bad news is that’s not how that tune goes.”</p><p>“What?!” Joe said.</p><p> “Well,” the stranger said, “I’ve never heard anyone play only the harmony part. Uh …. Here’s how we play it.” The visitor feared his revelation would embarrass or anger his host, but, on the contrary, Joe found the news hilarious. The rest of The Flood did too.</p><p>“So,” Dave chortled, “guess we oughta write some words to go with that song you wrote, Joe,” planting a seed in Charlie Bowen’s mind that only now is bearing fruit in <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/7qNif10Pbeg?si=l7qjYX-k9hFO5G8L">“Murder of Mountains.”</a></p><p>Epilogue I</p><p>Here’s a footnote to the “Star of the County Down” part of this story. The Flood finally took steps to set the melodic record straight when back in 2020 the guys went into <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/paul-martins-first-flood-gig">Paul Martin</a>’s studio to record their <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/speechlessly-returning-to-the-studio">Speechless: The Instrumentals</a><a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/speechlessly-returning-to-the-studio"> album. </a></p><p>In the years after <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/the-wonderful-world-of-joe-dobbs">Joe’s death</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/beloved-floodster-doug-chaffin-passes">Doug Chaffi</a>n had stepped up to play The Flood’s fiddle. Click the button to hear his rendition of “Star” from those sessions.</p><p>In it you hear Doug open the number by faithfully stating the melody that Joe brought us all those years ago. Then the album’s guest artist, <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/the-multi-talented-mr-schneider">Floodster Emeritus Stewart Schneider</a>, comes forward for a fine Autoharp solo that nails the original melody as it is played in the aire’s Irish homeland. After that, the track rocks back and forth between the two variations.</p><p>Epilogue II</p><p>By the way, we have also felt it appropriate to add <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/audio/podcasts/floodcast837.mp3">“Murder of Mountains”</a> to the curated <a target="_blank" href="http://www.1937flood.com/pages/bb-WVBlend-radioflood.html">“West Virginia Blend”</a> playlist in our free <a target="_blank" href="http://1937flood.com/pages/bb-radioflood.html">Radio Floodango</a> music streaming service. Click below to read all about this particular special blend.</p><p>And remember, we’ve now got ways to mobilize the ol’ Floodanago. <a target="_blank" href="https://1937flood.substack.com/p/putting-the-flood-in-your-pocket">Click here to find out how</a> to put the Flood radio on your computer desktop and on an iPhone to make your Flood fix always just a click away.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://1937flood.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">1937flood.substack.com</a>
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