Flood Tunes on a Timeline

#337 / Research Extra

The Flood does more than a century worth of music. One of the big “plusses” of being West Virginia’s most eclectic string band is that there’s no limit to where — or WHEN — we get our tunes. Here’s a timeline for your browsing pleasure.

Pre-1910

— “Alberta, Let Your Hair Hang Down”
— “Buddy Bolden’s Blues”
— “Careless Love”
— “Delia’s Gone”
— “Didn’t He Ramble?”
— “Down By the Salley Gardens"
— “Georgie Buck”
— “I Got Mine”
— "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor"
— “Midnight Special”
— “My Dear Companion”
— “Needed Time”
— “Whinin’ Boy”

The Teens

1912

— “Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)”

1913

— "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone"

1914

— "St. Louis Blues"

1915

— “Yellow Dog Blues”

1918

— “Somebody Stole My Gal”

1919

— “After You’ve Gone”
— "(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate"

1923

— https://1937flood.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-you-when-youre-down

1924

— “I Am a Pilgrim”
— “It Had to Be You”
— “Lady Be Good”

1925

— “Bye Bye Blues”
— “Dinah”
— “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down”
— "Sweet Georgia Brown"

1926

— “Birth of the Blues”
— “Blue Skies”
— "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune"
— “Doctor Jazz”
— “Trouble in Mind”
— “Way Downtown”

1927

— "France Blues (Hey, Lawdy, Mama, Mama, Hey, Lawdy, Papa, Papa)”
— “My Blue Heaven”

1928

— "Good as I Been to You (You Gonna Quit Me Blues")
— “Makin' Whoopee”
— “Took My Gal a-Walkin’”

1929

— "Ain't Misbehavin'"
— “Am I Blue?”
— "Back Up and Push"
— “Furniture Man”
— "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?"
— "Gotta Shave 'Em Dry"
— “Honeysuckle Rose”
— “Just Because”
— “Moonshine in The West Virginia Hills”
— “Somebody's Been Using That Thing"
— "Tear It Down"
— "Walk Right In"
— “Yas Yas Duck”

1930

— “But Not for Me”
— “Georgia on My Mind”
— “Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone”
— “Sittin' on Top of the World”
— “Solid Gone”
— “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
— “Up a Lazy River”

1931

— "All of Me"
— “4th Street Mess Around”

1932

— “New Orleans”

1933

— "Deep Ellum Blues"
— “Deep River Blues”
— “Moonglow”

1934

— “Blue Moon”
— “Dead Cat on the Line”
— “Dink’s Song”
— “Jug Band Music”
— "Summertime"

1935

— “Blackberry Blossom”
— “Lulu's Back in Town”
— “Rag Mama”

1938

— “Ain’t the Gravy Good?”
— “The Nearness of You”

1941

— “God Bless the Child”

1942

— "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
— "Jelly Roll Baker"

1943

— "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

1944

— "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
— "Opus One"

1945

— “Memphis in June”

1946

— “That's All Right, Mama”

1948

— “Black Coffee”

1949

— "I Almost Lost My Mind"

1950

— “Autumn Leaves”

1951

— “Too Old to Cut the Mustard”

1954

— “Fly Me to the Moon”
— "Misty"
— "San Francisco Bay Blues"
— "Singing the Blues"

1955

— “Cry Me a River”

1957

— “I’m Walkin’”
— “(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me”

1958

— “If You Lose Your Money”

1959

— “Handy Man”
— "You Got Me Slippin'"

1961

— “Hard Times (Who Knows Better Than I)”
— “Hey Baby”
— “Lazarus”
— "Windy and Warm"

1962

— "Corrina, Corrina"
— "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
— “Four Strong Winds”
— "You're No Good"

1963

— "Abilene"
— “500 Miles Away from Home”
— “Sunny”

1964

— “Different Drum”
— “Mama, You Been on My Mind”
— “One Too Many Mornings”
— “Ramblin' Boy”
— “Today (While the Blossoms Still Cling to the Vine)”

1965

— “Dusty Boxcar Wall”
— “The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore”

1966

— "I Got a Secret (Shake Sugaree)"

1967

— “Down in the Flood”
— "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues"
— “These Days”
— “To Love Somebody”
— "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"

1968

— “Drive In”
— “The Dutchman”
— "July, You're a Woman"

1969

— "Jamaica Say You Will"
— “Moondance”
— "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You"
— “Wish I Had a Troubadour”

The Seventies and Beyond

1970

— “Driving Wheel”
— "Our House"
— “Spoon River”

1972

— “Jug Band Song”
— "Peaceful Easy Feeling"
— "Suffer to Sing the Blues"

1976

— “Twisted Laurel”

1977

— “Ain’t No Free”
— “All Out of Season”

1978

— "Ready for the Times to Get Better"
— “The Rose”
— “Shawneetown”

1979

— “Druther Not”

1980

— “One Red Rose”

1988

— “When You Say Nothing at All”

1989

— "No Ash Will Burn"

1992

— “Harvest Moon”

1994

— “Love Will Keep Us Alive”

1995

— “Loving You Would Be So Good for Me”

1997

— "Make You Feel My Love"

1999

— “Don’t Know Why”

2010

— “Can You Run?”

2022

— “These Boys”

Traditional

— “The Ash Grove”
— “Barbara Allen”
— "Carrickfergus"
— "Castle of Dromore (October Winds)"
— “Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens”
— “The Gentle Maiden”
— “Greensleeves”
— “June Apple”
— “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
— "Pretty Polly"
__ “Wade in the Water”
— “Wayfaring Stranger”