Two from Randy

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As The Flood continues planning for its next album, here are two tunes that are definitely in the lineup, both wonderful vocals by Randy Hamilton. The film above was shot by Pamela Bowen at this week’s rehearsal.

Opening the video is Randy’s take on “Deep River Blues.” As we’ve reported here earlier, while this tune generally is quite rightly associated with Doc Watson, it actually traces its roots to a 1930s Delmore Brothers song that was probably inspired by the cataclysmic flood of 1927 along the lower Mississippi River.

This is followed by a watery tune of another type. “Dink’s Song (Fare Thee Well)” was collected more than a century ago by folklorist John A. Lomax during his first field trip to the Brazos River area of east Texas. As reported, poet Carl Sandburg, who often played the tune, famously “preferred Dink to Sappho,” as Lomax put it.

More Videos?

And, hey, if this whets your appetite for more Floodishness on film, check out the “Our Videos” page on The Flood website (www.1937flood.com).

There you’ll find dozens of videos, some going back decades, as well as links to special projects, since as memorials and tributes to departed Floodsters, “legacy films” such as the Bowen Bash series and full-length features like the band’s “Pajama Jams” series of a few years back.