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
1915
1918
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
1933
— "Deep Ellum Blues"
— “Deep River Blues”
— “Moonglow”
1934
— “Blue Moon”
— “Dead Cat on the Line”
— “Dink’s Song”
— “Jug Band Music”
— "Summertime"
1935
— “Lulu's Back in Town”
— “Rag Mama”
1938
— “Ain’t the Gravy Good?”
— “The Nearness of You”
1941
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
1946
1948
1949
1950
1951
— “Too Old to Cut the Mustard”
1954
— “Fly Me to the Moon”
— "Misty"
— "San Francisco Bay Blues"
— "Singing the Blues"
1955
1957
— “I’m Walkin’”
— “(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me”
1958
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”
— “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
1977
— “Ain’t No Free”
— “All Out of Season”
1978
— "Ready for the Times to Get Better"
— “The Rose”
— “Shawneetown”
1979
1980
1988
— “When You Say Nothing at All”
1989
1992
1994
1995
— “Loving You Would Be So Good for Me”
1997
1999
2010
2022
Traditional
— “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”