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May 15, 2018: It Don't Work Like That! As we gear up for the latest edition of the monthly Route 60 Saturday Night show this weekend (at Route 60 Music Co., 60 Peyton St. in Barboursville), we have to prepare to go on stage without our regular harmonicat. Sam St. Clair is heading north to Alaska for a memory quest with his parents, and we wish them bon voyage. Meanwhile, The Flood’s good buddy Jim Rumbaugh has graciously agreed to sit in with us on harps for Saturday’s show. At last night’s Flood rehearsal, Jim rocked us with one of his original compositions, which we expect to bring to Saturday night’s show. Here’s Jim’s “It Don’t Work Like That!”

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Like an audio diary, more than 400 episodes of The Flood's weekly podcast, called "Jam Logs," have been shared online since the first installment in December 2008.

Here is a browseable archives of all the episodes to date, enabling you to listen to our goldie-oldies...

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chasAmounting to more than 30 hours of music, it's all free! Well, free-ish. You do have to pay a little ear tax with your patience, since your listening requires you endure Charlie starting ... Every .... Single ... Episode ... With .... THE SAME DAMN WORDS: "Hey there! It's Charlie Bowen with The 1937 Flood....!" Bless his heart. Sooner or later, though, if you listen to enough of them, you'll figure out how to fiddle with the slider and slip right past his opener.

In addition to all that audio, the following pages also include dozens of Video Extras, that is, videos shot at about the same time as the associated podcasts, either "at home" with the Flood or at a contemporary performance.

Here's an overview of the years of this diary:

2008: The idea for the weekly podcasts began Samwith Sam St. Clair. Early in the year, Sam noted that the price of good digital recorders had come down dramatically, and he thought we should buy one and have it running during the weekly rehearsals, just … you know … in case somebody might commit some art.

2009: The big development of year was that Jacob Scarr, our younest Floodster ever, officially joined the band in March 2009. Jacob had been sitting in with us for a year a more. He was already good enough to be a Floodster Jacobthen, but we weren't sure that, at 14, he was retain his interest. When he turned 16 and was still showing up each each week, we enthusiastically asked him to make it official. He should stay with the band until he left for college in the summer of 2011.

2010 saw the weekly gatherings at the Bowens' house evolve from simple rehearsals into weekly jam sessions encompassing more and more visitors, some playing, some just on hand to listen. In fact, the pre-Thanksgiving session found 27 people(!) in the room, from as kazoofar away as New York and Washington and as near as around the block. Spice the evening with the baggie of kazoos -- the happy instrument Flood kazoo guru Dave Peyton calls "the West Virginia saxophone" -- and you have one of the jolliest podcasts of the year.

2011: For much of the year, The Flood was focused on the band's old comrade and co-founder Roger Samples and on the start of what rogwould be Rog's five-year battle with cancer. At the end of the previous year, doctors in Lexinton, Ky., found a cancer in his trachea; the situation was grave -- the cancer was aggressive -- but the doctors were preparing him and the family for a fight, with chemo therapy to start in late January. As soon as the word spread, Roger's friends and family started gathering give what support they could. Randy

2012: The best news of the year was the first news of the year: that Randy Hamilton joined the band. His beautiful accoustic/electric bass now became the solid, reliable heartbeat of The Flood, and his wonderful voice started bringing new vocal power to our harmonies and leads.

2013 was a year of losses. Nancy McClellan -- who with her husband Harvey, had been so central to the band since its beginning -- died in October. George Walker, who produced The Flood's second and third CDs, died in May. tom

2014 saw The Flood check off another item of its bucket list: Taking part in a a full-fledged stage production. Marshall University director Nicole Perrone made it all possible when she invited The JoeFlood to perform nightly for a week as the warmup band for a Marshall production of "The Adventiures of Tom Sawyer."

2015: Endings and beginnings. Joe Dobbs, one of the founding members of The Flood, passed away after 40 years with the band. One of his last recommendation is that we tease the great Paul Martin to join us. He was pleased that we were successful in that effort.Paul

2016: Another item on our bucket list -- the recording of a "live, in concert" album -- was finally achieved in 2016. Joe Dobbs would have loved it! It was one of our late fiddlin' friend's favorite comment that the band he co-founded 40+ years ago always sounded better at parties and concerts than it did in rehearsals and in studios. “It helps that everybody’s a ham,” Joe would say with a smile. Well, that and the kazoos...

2017: The Next Big Thing for The Flood came in 2017 when we became the house band for a new monthly music variety show called Route 60 Saturday Night.

GUEST APPEARANCES

Floodster Emeriti

DENNIS DOBBS
   -- (3/15/12)

BILL HOKE
   -- (10/29/09)

STEW SCHNEIDER
   -- (7/1/10)

ROGER SAMPLES
   -- (1/27/11)
   -- (3/25/11)
   -- (6/30/11)
   -- (2/9/12)

JACOB SCARR
   -- (6/28/12)
   -- (1/3/13)
   -- (12/24/14)
   -- (1/8/15)
   -- (12/2/15)
   -- (12/22/15)
   -- (6/29/16)
   -- (7/6/16)
   -- (12/28/16)
   -- (1/4/17)
   -- (1/3/18)

CHUCK ROMINE
   -- (9/3/09)
   -- (9/10/09)
   -- (4/29/10)
   -- (9/9/10)
   -- (4/7/11)
   -- (7/19/12)
   -- (1/16/14)
   -- (3/20/14)
   -- (4/24/14)
   -- (5/16/14)
   -- (7/31/14)
   -- (9/25/14)
   -- (2/12/15)
   -- (3/12/15)
   -- (3/2/16)
   -- (7/6/16)
   -- (9/7/16)

Friends

CATHY BARTON
& DAVE PARA
   -- (8/19/10)
   -- (10/28/10)

NERF BROWN
   -- (4/14/11)

RANDY BROWN
   -- (3/11/10)
   -- (3/18/10)
   -- (4/29/10)
   -- (8/26/10)
   -- (2/10/11)
   -- (4/7/11)
   -- (9/1/11)
   -- (9/8/11)
   -- (10/27/11)
   -- (1/8/15)

KATHY CASTNER
   -- (5/16/13)
   -- (12/14/16)

KAREN COMBS
   -- (12/24/14)
   -- (1/8/15)

PHYLLIS DALE
   -- (8/4/11)
   -- (8/18/11)

WENDELLL DOBBS
  -- (1/16/09)
   -- (7/28/11)
  -- (8/18/11)

RON ELDRIDGE
   -- (10/7/10)

BUDDY GRIFFIN
   -- (3/25/11)
   -- (1/13/13)

SHERRI HAMILTON
   -- (7/31/14)
  -- (10/30/14)

DOUG IMBROGNO
   -- (1/28/10)
   -- (1/19/12 )

DALE JONES
   -- (11/19/09)
   -- (4/29/10)



ROD & JUDY JONES
   -- (7/29/10)
   -- (8/12/10)
   -- (9/2/10)
   -- (7/14/11)

MARK KEEN
   -- (11/10/11)

MIKE LYZENGA
   -- (1/19/12)

ROB McNURLIN
   -- (6/16/11)
   -- (10/13/11)
   -- (10/18/17)
   -- (11/8/17)

TOM NORMAN
   -- (10/20/11)

MATT PARKER
   -- (11/26/09)
   -- (11/24/11)

ALBERT PERRONE
   -- (1/19/12)

JIM RUMBAUGH
   -- (6/17/10)
   -- (8/26/10)
   -- (4/7/11)
   -- (4/28/11)
   -- (9/8/11)
   -- (10/6/11)
   -- (7/31/14)
   -- (12/24/14)
   -- (1/8/15)
   -- (2/6/18)
   -- (5/15/18)

JESSE SMITH
   -- (3/3/11)
   -- (7/21/11)
   -- (8/10/11)
   -- (7/21/11)

JOHN SMITH
   -- (6/2/11)

MIKE SMITH
   -- (4/2/09)
   -- (5/21/09)
   -- (7/16/09)
   -- (12/24/09)
   -- (1/21/10)
   -- (4/7/10)
   -- (7/15/10)
   -- (8/25/11)

SUSAN STATON
   -- (4/7/11)

PAULA STEWART
   -- (6/2/11)

SALLIE SUBLETTE
   -- (2/23/12)
   -- (10/12/16)

CHRIS SUTTON
   -- (1/19/12)

DANIEL TROUT
   -- (7/9/09)
   -- (6/2/11)