Dear Diary ... The Podcast Archives: 2025

JANUARY

Jan, 3, 2025: Black Eye Blues. When the whole band can’t get together — like last week, when it was just Danny, Randy and Charlie — it’s an opportunity to explore tunes not usually on the practice list. Now, in Flood years, this old Ma Rainey song dates back nearly a half century, to when the fellows were just starting to fool with the hokum tunes of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Jan, 10, 2025: Am I Blue? Often the first notes of the evening set the pace, the mood and the tone for the entire rehearsal. Well, as you’ll hear on this track, Danny Cox came into last week’s session ready to set the Floodometer on sizzle — and, man, it worked! Now, we’ve been doing this great old1920s jazz standard for only a couple of years, but it’s already become one of our go-to tunes for a good time.