Dear Diary ... The Podcast Archives: 2025
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JANUARY
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Storytelling in B Minor |
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.
Jan, 17, 2025: Pretty Polly. All kinds of stories are told at the weekly rehearsals. Some are shared for laughs. Others are merely melodies and improvisations. Some come with pictures. And some — like this one — are the tales that are many times older than all of us.
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Swing 'n' Sway, The Flood Way |
Jan, 25, 2025: Corrina, Corrina. For the past month, the world has been fascinated by a new movie about a 20-year-old with a head full of ideas rolling in from the North Country into New York City in the 1960s and changing music forever. For our tribute to this wonderful Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” here’s a tune from that period.
Jan, 31, 2025: Opus One. If your mother (or grandma or maybe your great-grandmother) was a Bobby-soxer in the 1940s, she probably danced to this song. It was a hit on the radio for Tommy Dorsey in late 1944, and an even bigger smash the following year for singer Anita O’Day, recording it with a band fronted by drummer Gene Krupa with the legendary Roy Eldridge on trumpet. In the Floodisphere,we’ve found that “Opus One” is wonderful way to warm up for an evening of tunes.