The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

We have always found this song incredibly moving, due in no small part to memories of the place and time when we played it in public for the first time.

It was seven years ago at our favorite Charlest…

Charlie Bowen wrote this song about 30 years ago with the idea that The Flood would perform it some day, even though at that particular moment, the future seemed rather uncertain for the band he had …

At this week’s rehearsal, Pamela Bowen, our manager/videographer, captured a couple more of the tunes that we are considering for inclusion in that new album we hope to start working on later this ye…

Rehearsal is always important, of course, but sometimes leaving a song alone for a while also has interesting effects.

For instance, it’s been probably a year or more since the Ray Charles classic “Ha…

Canada’s folk music scene in the 1960s produced legends — from Gordon Lightfoot and Ian Tyson to Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young — and that remarkable community also nurtured a whole worl…

Here’s another tune that is campaigning to be included on the new album we hope to start recording later this year. We’d like to hear what you think about it.

As we noted earlier, we’ve loved “Peacefu…

Today most of us don’t know the name Marion Harris, but Grandma probably did when she was a teen-ager listening to that new-fangled radio in the parlor.

Songs that summed up the transition from the st…

A third of a millennium ago, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a New Year’s party at which he hear the “little Scotch song of Barbary Allen….”

Scholars often cite that Jan. 2, 1666, entry as evide…

What a wonderful time we had yesterday afternoon with our friends at Alchemy Theatre when we launched the Spring Floodango. The stage was full. All five Floodsters — Charlie, Sam, Randy, Dan and Jack…

The afternoon we have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Spring Floodango hits the stage at Alchemy Theatre today.

The show starts at 2:30. Tickets are $20 and and all the proceeds go to suppo…

Ours is a band that was born at a party and born TO party.

Whether we’re at home in our band room at the Bowen House, settled in the living room of somebody else’s house or on stage at a gig, the par…

Floodango fever swept back into the WSAZ-TV studio this afternoon.

On the heels of Monday morning’s visit to the station’s Studio 3 show, Flood and Alchemy Theatre folks were back in front of the came…

Susan Nicholas and Taylor Eaton and all the good folks at WSAZ-TV’s Studio 3 this morning gave some sweet attention to our Spring Floodango show set for 2:30 p.m. this Sunday at Alchemy Theatre.

As yo…

We learned this tune from the late Floodster Emeritus Bill Hoke, who — like many other people — said he first heard it at a folk festival some time in the early 1990s.

It has been about 25 years ago n…

The legacy of a really good party ought to be another party!

And we had a really good party last New Year’s Eve at Alchemy Theatre when the good folks at the Geneva Kent Center for the Arts hosted Th…

In blues parlance, the term “easy rider” is code for … oh, well, for many things. Maybe a rovin’ gambler or a lover, maybe a pimp … (Y’all just talk among yourselves and let your imagination gallop a…

She promised meet him after work, but she never showed up. Disappointed, he did what you do if you’re an aspiring composer: He put it all down in a song.

A scene like that plays out every day somewher…

We know precious little about pioneer bluesman James “Boodle It” Wiggins. We don’t know when or where he was born, or even precisely when in the 1930s that he died. No pictures of him are known to ex…

We really appreciate the feedback and suggestions we’ve been getting so far from all y’all about some of the songs we’re considering for the new album. Here are a couple more we thinking about includ…

St. Patrick’s Day has always been special to us, so it was particularly sweet six years ago tonight when the opening show for the 2018 season of “Route 60 Saturday Night” — the monthly musical variet…