The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

The story goes that folkie John Denver was just 22 years old when he played at Arizona’s Lumber Mill Club in Scottsdale and met a girl named Bobbie Wargo.

The two had much in common. Both grew up in military families. Both were musicians and aspirin... more

At a good rehearsal — and, heck, that’s just about every rehearsal nowadays — none of us really wants it to end.

Oh, sure, we get tired — two hours of hard picking take a toll — but as Gladys Knight used to say, none of us wants to be the first to ... more

This song, while beautiful at any time of the year, is especially resonant at the dawn of a new holiday season. So this morning, as our Thanksgiving gift, here’s The Flood’s latest performance of the late Michael Peter Smith’s evocative “Spoon River.... more

Here’s another tune that Danny Cox has brought to us from his decades of lovingly listening to Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed’s famous recordings.

One of Jerry’s composition, “Baby’s Coming Home” is a standout tune that was introduced on 1974’s landmark... more

Educated ears in the summer of 1957 were still trying to decide if this new rock ’n’ roll thing was really music’s future or was just a passing fancy.

Two summers had passed by then since the new sound burst upon the American scene. The ear-opening ... more

Fourteen years ago this week, The Flood had a wonderful evening with a local legend, a gentle soul named Mark Keen. Visiting from his Pittsburgh home, Mark sat in on harmonica for a rollicking evening of blues.

Growing up in Huntington, Mark and a ... more

From a thousand miles away, Matt Whyte has been a Flood fan for at least a decade and a half, but until recently he was never in the same room with the band.

Instead, Matt always had to limit his Floodifying to singing along with the albums he recei... more

It’s not easy to make the top dozen in CMT’s “100 Greatest Love Songs,” but that is precisely the placement that the music network awarded to Keith Whitley’s recording of “When You Say Nothing At All.”

The song has a beloved place in our hearts. We ... more