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We Still Miss John

A half dozen years after his death at beginning of the horrid Covid pandemic, songwriter John Prine is still very much on the minds of the folks in The Flood band room. In fact, every spring since the sad April 2020 day of his passing, John’s wonderful songs start popping up among the tunes that ...

Banjo Bigotry: The Ballad of Buzzkill

Three summers ago when Charlie Bowen took his first tremulous steps into the world of banjocity, he bought a six-string banjo … and immediately got grief. “That ain’t no banjo!” one friend declared. “That’s just a guitar with delusions of grandeur. You can play dress it up all you want, man, but ...

"Brown's Ferry Blues"

Rabon Delmore never learned to drive a car, so it was always his older brother Alton behind the wheel as they tooled between gigs in the early days of their career during the Great Depression. That routine played a big part in The Delmore Brothers’ prolific songwriting life. As he later describe ...

"Brown's Ferry Blues"

Dave Peyton, Roger Samples and Charlie Bowen used to play this tune back in the ‘70s, but it’s only recently come back into the Floodipshere. Here’s the 1933 signature tune of The Delmore Brothers, featuring Danny Cox’s guitar and Jack Nuckols’ fiddle. 

Folk Vibe

Charlie Bowen remembers a conversation he once had with his old buddy Jim Strother. It was decades ago and the two of them were reminiscing about a time even earlier. “Remember,” Jim said, “when you’d see a fella ramblin’ along carrying a guitar case, and he’d have his coat collar turned up agai ...

"Murder of Mountains"

Dave Peyton inspired our writing of this song. West Virginia’s greatest defender — and her harshest critic — Dave spoke tirelessly from his popular newspaper columns and in his frequent radio and television appearances… … but also anywhere else that people would listen, in coffee shops and at co ...

"Murder of Mountains"

 The late Dave Peyton inspired Charlie Bowen to write this song. Railing against the relentless ravaging of our state, he’d say, “Sometimes I think the worst thing that ever happened to West Virginia was when somebody discovered coal.” And what bothered him almost as much was the paralyzing grie ...

Diamond Teeth Mary '26, Here We Come!

Here’s a tune that will be on the set list tomorrow night when The Flood opens the festivities at this year’s Diamond Teeth Mary blues festival in downtown Huntington. It’s a 1913 composition by the great Shelton Brooks. And if that name sounds familiar, you might be remembering last week’s podc ...

“Time in a Bottle”

Here’s an audio snapshot of the end of last week’s rehearsal. We’d just had a wonderful evening singing with a Flood sweetheart, Charlie Bowen’s lovely cousin Kathy Castner, who had made one of her rare visits in from Cincinnati. At the beginning of this track you hear folks packing up their in ...

Charlie Bowen Funeral 8/11/2021

Rev Ken Waltrup - Pastor Terry Brock - Wednesday, August 11, 2021