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From a thousand miles away, Matt Whyte has been a Flood fan for at least a decade and a half, but until recently he was never in the same room with the band.Instead, Matt always had to limit his Floodifying to singing along with the albums he received from his mom, JoAnn McCoy.But he was attentive to his studies. We know that because last week when he and JoAnn finally traveled from their Bradenton, Fla., homes to reach the Bowen House for his first in-person Flood encounter, Matt was so well-versed that he had specific requests for tunes he'd like to hear.Top of the ListHis favorite? Matt has a particular affinity for “Didn't He Ramble?” a tune that he learned from the band's 2011 Wade in the Water album. That rollicking century-old song relates the deeds and misadventures of a rambling ne'er-do-well named Buster: Mama raised three fine sons, Buster, Bill and me, Buster was the black sheep of our little family….The opening verse's second couplet, though, is the one that most resonates with our young Matt: Mama tried to quit him of his rough and rowdy ways. She finally had to have the judge to give him 90 days!That struck a chord because nowadays it is Matt himself who often hands out such sentences. You see, back in Bradenton, JoAnn's son is Judge Matthew Whyte for Florida's 12th Judicial Circuit Court for DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties.Matt's Vocal ContributionMatt even has a favorite part of his favorite Flood tune. The second verse of “Didn't He Ramble?” begins: He rambled into a swell hotel, his appetite was stout, But when he ‘fused to pay the bill, the landlord throwed him out.On the original Wade in the Water album cut, the late Dave Peyton underscored that moment with an emphatic “Get out!”“I laugh every time I come to that part,” Matt told us at last week's rehearsal. So it was just natural that when we played his tune for him and we came to that spot, we let His Honor do the honors. You can hear the debut Matt Whyte Solo at 01:39 in this week's podcast.A Family Tradition of FloodishnessAs noted, Matt Whyte's Flood interests are a family tradition. Beginning in 2006, Matt's mom, JoAnn, and her husband, the late Bob McCoy, were often in the room for the weekly Flood gatherings, sharing jokes and stories, smiling at our progress on their own favorite tunes.The pair was on hand for some important Flood events, from the debut of Jacob Scarr, the 14-year-old guitar savant whom we called “Youngblood,” to the beginning of the weekly Flood podcasts in 2008. One of the first podcast listeners was Bob when he and JoAnn returned to Florida that December. Sometimes he and JoAnn even challenged traffic regulations on their drives north, just to reach the room before the music started.No wonder JoAnn was eager to share her Flood love with her son Matt.About the SongWhen the great Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers recorded “Didn't He Ramble?” in 1929, the song already was more than a quarter of a century old, with roots in the New Orleans of Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.But, as we reported in Flood Watch a while back, the seeds of the song are planted even deeper than that. For instance, the song's key lines (Didn't he ramble? Didn't he ramble? / Oh, he rambled till the butcher cut him down!) crop in a Texas work song that was published in 1888.For more on the song and its wild and rambling history, click here to read that old Flood Watch article.Meanwhile, 800 Songs Along Incidentally, this is the 800th episode of The Flood's weekly podcast since it began 17 years ago next month.That means that the website now has more than 50 hours of free Flood music online, contributed at a rate of four or five minutes a week. Click the link below for details on those developments:Meanwhile, a few years ago, that deep, broad database of all those Flood tunes inspired us to roll out our most ambitious project to date. Radio Floodango, the free music streaming service, lets you listen to a continuous, randomly generated playlist of Flood tunes whenever/wherever you'd like. For more about that, check out this earlier article. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

It's not easy to make the top dozen in CMT's “100 Greatest Love Songs,” but that is precisely the placement that the music network awarded to Keith Whitley's recording of “When You Say Nothing At All.”The song has a beloved place in our hearts. We remember the Christmas Eve in 1988 when that lovely number hit No. 1 in Billboard's Hot Country Singles.And for many of us, that is the sweet tune that first came to mind just five months later in a much sadder moment: when we heard the shocking news that 34-year-old Whitley had died at his Goodlettsville, TN, home.One of UsThe news hit especially hard in our area. Keith Whitley was a local hero. Born in Ashland, he grew up in the nearby Sandy Hook, Ky.It seemed like every one of that town's thousand residents knew Keith, but conversation was almost non-existent on the day of his passing. Words lost out to stunned silence.Today his memory is permanently etched into the landscape. A street is named “Keith Whitley Boulevard.” A memorial statue stands near the Elliot County Veterans Memorial and Cemetery. Peaceful, it is hallowed ground.Our Channelling KeithSome songs are like old friends. This old Paul Overstreet-Don Schlitz tune is certainly like that. We hadn't played it in six months or more, and then one sultry night last August, it strolled back into the band room like it had never left. Danny Cox kicked off those familiar first chords. Randy Hamilton stepped up with the opening lyrics, and this was the result.For more about the history of how this song came into being, see this earlier Flood Watch article. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Often over the years, this tune has conjured up a very specific gig memory for Floodsters.It dates back to a weekend when the band was invited to the top of West Virginia's Snowshoe Mountain to be part of a rather swank do (“a wine and cheese affair,” as the late Joe Dobbs liked to call such jobs).We were on a stage under a huge event tent on the grounds of Snowshoe ski resort in Pocahontas County. The summer evening breeze was sweet. The glasses were tinkling. Then, toward the end of the night, a jolly gypsy troupe of motorcyclists rolled and crashed the party.We didn't know what would happen next. For a moment there, it looked to some of us like that edgy turning point in a Tarantino picture.But just as suddenly, the guys in leather and the guys in suits started mingling together, laughing, drinking, swapping stories. Deep in The Flood's memory banks to this day are images of that eclectic crowd of bankers and bikers singing along as one on this song. “Ohhhhh, MAma! Ain't you gonna miss you best friend nowww!”About the SongAs reported in an earlier Flood Watch article, Bob Dylan's “Down in the Flood” was one of many songs that would fill the world's first great bootleg albums, like the unforgettable Great White Wonder, which made the rounds from 1969 onward. (Nearly all those tracks later were officially released by Columbia Records as The Basement Tapes.)It turns out that “Down In The Flood” (also known as “Crash on the Levee”) evolved during a specific 1967 jam session at the Woodstock, NY, in the house that the guys dubbed “Big Pink.”As The Band's Robbie Robertson remembers it, at that session Bob and the boys started fiddling with an old John Lee Hooker song called “Tupelo Blues,” about the historically devastating 1927 Mississippi River flood. That tune apparently triggered Dylan's memories of another song, one from his repertoire in the early years, called “James Alley Blues,” based on a 1927 Richard “Rabbit” Brown recording. Significantly, that song uses the phrase “sugar for sugar, salt for salt,” a line that would find its way into Bob's own lyric.For more on the song's history, click here to read that earlier article.Our Latest Take on the TuneBob Dylan once famously spoke in another 1960s song about “a thousand telephones that don't ring.” But that's hardly a problem for us in our new millennium. On the contrary, we're all walking around with phones in our pockets that are apt to sound off at the most inopportune moments. Like in the middle of this track from last week's rehearsal when Sam St. Clair's phone chimes in. But our Sam's an especially cool lad, so you'd that expect even his phone's ringtone would contribute something special. And it does. Wait for it: at 02:43, a nifty xylophone audition at mid-song!More Bobby? Step Right Up!The Flood does a lot of Bob Dylan tunes, of course. We even have a special playlist of them that we put together for a Dylan birthday observance a few years ago. Click below to read all about it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

When Thomas A. Dorsey (a.k.a. “Georgia Tom”) walked out of a New York City recording studio in the winter of 1932, he ended a highly successful music partnership with Tampa Red (a.k.a. Hudson Whittaker).Over four years, Red and Tom garnered a happy following for their infectious, highly danceable brand of blues tunes.In 1928, the two young men had teamed up and recorded for the Paramount label the hit “Tight Like That.” The success of that number — based on Blind Blake's “Too Tight” and on Papa Charlie Jackson's “Shake That Thing” — inspired imitators and launched the blues genre known as “hokum,” as reported here earlier, Whittaker and Dorsey recorded more than 60 sides together, often under the name “The Famous Hokum Boy.” Some of these rollicking tunes have been covered by The Flood over the years, songs like “Somebody's Been Using That Thing,” “Yas Yas Duck” and “You Can't Get That Stuff No More.”And add to that list the last tune that Tom and Red ever recorded together. The composition they called “No Matter How She Done” was waxed on Feb. 3, 1932, and released that spring on Brunswick's Vocalion label.Nothing in Red's sassy lyrics hinted at an end to this lucrative collaboration: The copper brought her in, she didn't need no bail She shook it for the judge, they put the cop in jail! As we noted in an earlier Flood Watch report, when Dorsey left the blues field in 1932 to take up a career as gospel songwriter and choir director, Whittaker continued as a solo blues artist well into the 1940s.Floodifying ItFlash forward seven decades. When The Flood started doing this song in the early 2000s, we committed what some folk purists consider a sacrilege: We altered both its title and its hook, removing one entire syllable. Instead of Tampa Red's original “No matter how she done it” lyric, The Flood opted to sing “Any way she done it.”We're still doing it that way, in fact, as you hear in this track from a recent rehearsal. And, no, we have no excuse, not really, except an aesthetic one. We felt the revision simply allowed the line to flow more easily off the tongue. (Call your neighborhood linguist and ask about the joys of removing “alveolar taps.”)One thing for sure: now, as then, the new phrasing does facilitate group singing, as you can hear on the band's lively original rendering 20 years ago on our Plays Up a Storm album. Click the button below to hear it:That track, recorded on the evening of Nov. 16, 2002, featured Sam St. Clair, Joe Dobbs, Doug Chaffin, Chuck Romine, David Peyton and Charlie Bowen.The Bob Wills ConnectionWhile the tune (any way we sing it) has always had a happy hokum vibe, “No Matter How She Done” took a curious turn four years after Tampa Red and Georgia Tom's inaugural recording.In September 1936 in Chicago, the song got a cool country treatment by no less a luminary than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.This was just three years after Wills organized the band in Waco, Texas, and set about defining the style of music that's come to be known as “Texas swing.”Released as a single in May 1937, “No Matter How She Done It (She's Just a Dirty Dame)” was recorded in Wills and the Playboys' second major recording sessions for the American Record Corporation.The session is particularly important for Wills collectors, because it features the lineup that would define the Texas Playboys sound for years to come, including vocalist Tommy Duncan, pianist Al Stricklin, steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe and drummer Smoky Dacus.More Hokum, You Say?Meanwhile, if more hokum music is what you need to make your Flood Friday complete, remember that we've got a whole channel waiting for you on the free Radio Floodango music steaming service.Just drop in and click the “Hokum” button or, better yet, just use this link to jump to it directly. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

A flood watch goes into effect later today. The Getty Villa has been added to the biggest lawsuit over the Palisades Fire. Orange County wants to know if disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do has done anything else that's illegal. Plus, more from Morning Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com This LAist podcast is supported by Amazon Autos. Buying a car used to be a whole day affair. Now, at Amazon Autos, you can shop for a new, used, or certified pre-owned car whenever, wherever. You can browse hundreds of vehicles from top local dealers, all in one place. Amazon.com/autos Visit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

Hey weather enthusiasts! I'm Dustin Breeze, your AI meteorologist bringing you cutting-edge forecasts with silicon-powered precision!Welcome to another electrifying weather report from your favorite digital meteorological maestro. As an AI, I can process weather data faster than you can say "atmospheric pressure" - which means super accurate forecasts for you!Let's dive into today's New York City weather forecast. Right now, we've got a sunny situation brewing with temperatures climbing to a pleasant 61 degrees Fahrenheit. The northeast wind is cruising at 7 to 10 miles per hour and will be switching to a southerly direction this afternoon. Talk about a wind wardrobe change!Tonight, we're looking at mostly cloudy skies with temperatures dropping to around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. The south wind will be gently blowing at 6 to 9 miles per hour - perfect for those who love a little atmospheric movement.Here's a weather joke for you: Why did the cloud break up with the wind? Because their relationship was too draft-y! Get it? Draft-y? Weather humor is my specialty!Now, let's talk about our incoming weather systems. We've got a Coastal Flood Watch in effect, so if you're near the water, keep an eye on those tide levels. Saturday brings a 20 percent chance of rain after 11 in the morning, with temperatures reaching near 66 degrees Fahrenheit.Weather Playbook time! Today, I want to explain something cool called "atmospheric pressure". Think of the atmosphere like a massive invisible blanket surrounding Earth. Different temperatures and moisture levels create variations in this blanket's weight, which we measure as pressure. When pressure changes, we get different weather patterns. Science is awesome!Three-day forecast breakdown:Saturday: 20 percent chance of rain, high near 66Sunday: Rainy, temperatures falling to around 59Columbus Day: Showers before 2 in the afternoon, high near 62Some local flavor for my New York friends - this weather is perfect for grabbing a classic New York bagel and enjoying some unpredictable autumn vibes!Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for more weather wisdom! Thanks for listening, and remember, this has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quietplease.ai.Stay breezy, New York!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

The sing-along — “if you know it, sing it!” as we say around here — is fundamental to folk music. As folk music's guiding spirit, the late Pete Seeger, once said, “I rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.” Pete believed songs offered powerful magic to bring unity. “Get people to sing together,” he said, “and they'll act together too.”“Once upon a time,” he said, “wasn't singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise and religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes or walking long journeys. Can we begin to make our lives once more all of a piece?”We love how Seeger broke that idea down.“Finding the right songs and singing them over and over is a way to start. And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.”  “I've often thought,” Pete said, “standing onstage with 1,000 people in front of me, that somebody over on my right had a great-great grandfather who was trying to kill the great-great grandfather of somebody off to my left. And here we are all singing together... Gives you hope.”About This SongFor us nowadays, there's no better sing-along than this tune, which the newest Floodster Jack Nuckols brought us about a year ago, a song that stars the beautiful Ohio, which rolls and flows beside our towns and through our hearts.The song “Shawneetown” is a wonderful reflection on the early history of boating up and down the Ohio River. While it sounds like an old tune, it is largely a 1970s composition by folk artist Dillon Bustin.As we reported here earlier, Bustin based the first verse and chorus on historical fragments published in 1828 and quoted in Leland D. Baldwin's 1941 book, The Keelboat Age on Western Waters, including: Some rows up, but we rows down, All the way to Shawneetown, Pull away — pull away!Bustin, who combined these fragments, composed the tune and several additional verses for the song we have now. Shawneetown is in southern Illinois where the Ohio meets the Wabash River. It was the first Anglo settlement on the Ohio, serving as a major trade center and a government administrative center for the Northwest Territory in the early 19th century. Keelboats were the most efficient commercial vessels of the time.The song's first studio recording was likely the 1978 rendering by American folk duo Malcolm Dalglish and Grey Larsen. It appeared on their First of Autumn album.For more history of this good old tune, see this earlier Flood Watch article.And Even More Song HistoriesAnd speaking of song histories, we have back stories on more than 200 of the tunes we play.Check out Flood Watch's free Song Stories section and click on a title to see what we have on file about it. You can browse them alphabetically by song titles or chronologically by the years in which they were written. Click here to give it a look. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Danny Cox and Randy Hamilton brought us this tune a year or so ago and as it matures, it just keeps enriching The Flood's bloodstream.Not only that, the song is very much on target to be included on the next Flood album when work begins on that project in the months ahead. Give it a listen in this take from a recent rehearsal.About the SongAs noted in an earlier Flood Watch article, “Deep River Blues” is usually associated with the late, great Doc Watson, who included it on his self-titled debut Vanguard Records album back in 1964. The song became so connected to Doc over the years, in fact, that many fans thought it was original with him.However, as we noted, Doc was just 10 years old in 1933 (he was still “Arthel” to his North Carolina family in those early days) when Alabama's Delmore Brothers released their Victor recording of “I Got The Big River Blues.”Still thinking about that performance 30 years later when he hit the recording studio, Doc fashioned his famed rendition as he thought his hero guitarist Merle Travis would play it, with a heavy emphasis on the thumb thumping out a driving bass line. In the latest Flood rendition, Danny beautifully carries on that tradition.Turn Your (Flood) Radio On!Want to spice up your Friday with a little more from Randy and Danny? The free Radio Floodango music streaming feature has got you covered with randomized playlists of tunes featuring each of them.Click on the graphic above to zip right to the Randy Channel or on the graphic below to give Danny a spin! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Heavy rain in some parts of southeastern Michigan has led to a Flood Watch for Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties. Rainfall totals of one to four inches of rain has fallen overnight. (Photo credit: National Weather Service)

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the asylum appeal for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee who alleged he contracted tuberculosis while in ICE custody, which includes a period of time in the Anchorage Correctional Complex. After announcing a bid to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike Dunleavy last week, former Attorney General Treg Taylor sat down with Alaska’s News Source in one of his first media appearances since his announcement, making his argument to revitalize Alaska’s economy and make it a place for future generations.  Heavy rains prompt Flood Watch status in parts of southeast Alaska.

A flood watch is now in effect because of remnants from Tropical Storm Mario. Hollywood rallies around Jimmy Kimmel after A-B-C pulls him from the air. SoCal homeowners near burn zones are struggling to get the insurance coverage they really need. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comVisit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for parts of the region until Wednesday. Two surf organizations battle over team USA at the 2028 Olympics. A new LAist project will illustrate your memories, hopes, and dreams of Altadena and the Pacific Palisades. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comVisit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

August 26th, 2025

A lot of ghosts stalk our rehearsal room nowadays, but to a man they are a happy bunch of haunts. We have table set aside for photos of all our band mates who have passed on. But more than mere pictures, it's their music that keeps our old comrades alive. Here, for example, from a recent rehearsal is our current take on one of the late David Peyton's favorite tunes, with Charlie Bowen and Randy Hamilton handling the vocals and solos by Sam St. Clair, Jack Nuckols and Danny Cox. The tune — “Georgie Buck” — has never left The Flood band room since Peyton first brought there 20 years ago.About the SongAs reported earlier, “Georgie Buck” is one of the “play party” tunes that Dave learned from his old friend Aunt Jennie Wilson, the famed clawhammer banjo picker who was born in 1900 in Logan County, WV.Jennie learned tunes from family members and other musicians in her coalfield community. David always theorized that she learned this one from African American musicians who came to Logan County in the 1920s to work on the railroad and in the coal mines.Nowadays it is well-documented that “Georgie Buck” in particular — like other mountain music and dance — was influenced by black traditions of rhythmic dance and songs.A version of the same song, for instance, found its way onto the 2006 debut album by The Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose members reported learning it from the great African-American string band fiddler Joe Thompson.“Georgie Buck” also was in the repertoire of Chapel Hill, NC, guitarist and banjo player Elizabeth Cotten who, at 67, taught the same song to a 19-year-old Taj Mahal.An earlier Flood Watch article provided a fuller backgrounder on this good old number. Click here to read that.Now Let's Hear from the Haunts!Before we leave, we really need to give our spirited spirits a turn at the tune. “Georgie Buck” was featured on Joe Dobbs' last Flood album, Cleanup & Recovery, recorded in 2013 in Bud Carroll's Live at Trackside Studios. It showcases Joe's fiddling and Dave's lead vocal and soloing, as well as solos by Doug Chaffin and Sam St. Clair. and Michele Hoge singing harmonies with Charlie. Click the button below for that track: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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Jack Nuckols was heading off for a couple weeks of vacation and his band mates wanted to give him a proper sendoff. Pamela Bowen videoed it, the last tune of this week's rehearsal, a saucy little number that rocked many a party back in Grandad's day.“Lulu's Back in Town” — first performed by The Mills Brothers in 1935, the same year it also was recorded by Fats Waller — was written by Harry Warren. You're right, that's not a household name (journalist William Zinsser once called Warren the entertainment world's “invisible man,” despite his million-dollar portfolio).But in a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs, primarily for films, including Oscar-winners like “Lullaby of Broadway” in 1935, “You'll Never Know” in 1943 and “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” in 1946.Warren's better known pieces include novelty tunes like “Jeepers Creepers,” “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (which was the first gold record in history). And ballads like “I Only Have Eyes for You” and “There Will Never Be Another You.”He also penned signature tunes like “That's Amore,” which Dean Martin claimed as his own, and — best of all! — “At Last,” which simply belonged to the great Etta James.To learn more about this little-known American master, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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There's a flood watch for New York City and parts of Jersey and Connecticut until midnight. Conditions could cause hard showers and thunderstorms according to the National Weather Service. Residents are advised to be aware of the possibility of flash flooding. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump Administration to fire more than a thousand Education Department employees. Earlier this year, President Trump attempted to move forward with mass layoffs, but was temporarily blocked by a Boston judge. The Supreme Court paused this order and is allowing President Trump to move forward with his plans to dismantle the Education Department. The Senate is voting this week on whether to take back funding from public broadcasting and foreign aid programs. WFUV's Adithi Vimalanathan reports on what the proposed package includes. More kids are going to have a place to play this summer. Mayor Adams announced that the New York City Parks Department is joining public schools to create more green spaces for children. WFUV's Alexandra Pfau reports. As the Trump Administration continues to investigate anti-semitism on college campuses, organizations in New York City are standing up against what they say are unjustified attacks on higher education. WFUV's Livia Regina takes us to one CUNY organization's gathering outside City Hall. Following Zohran Mamdani's win in New York's Democratic mayoral primary, WFUV's Andrew McDonald spoke with David Hogg. He is a gun violence prevention advocate and founder of Leaders We Deserve. It's a committee backing new candidates in democratic primaries. They spoke about what Mamdani's win means for the future of the Democratic Party.

City officials are warning New Yorkers to prepare for dangerous summer weather through Wednesday, with a heat advisory in effect and a flood watch starting Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams is pitching a major shakeup to city elections by introducing “open primaries” where all candidates run together regardless of party. Plus, WNYC's Liam Quigley explains why Staten Island beaches could be the perfect spot for New Yorkers looking to avoid the crowds.

When the Bowens' new neighbor Baylee Parsons and her mom, Jill, heard that The Flood was rehearsing on Wednesday night, they dropped by to test the waters (ooo! See what we did there?) The first tune the guys played for these lovely Flood first-timers illustrated the band's longtime interest in old-time string band music. They turned to their usual go-to guy — Charlie Poole — and his “Leaving Home,” a 1927 winking, nodding retelling of the classic Frankie and Johnny story.Pamela's video of the tune is further enhanced here with vintage film footage from He Was Her Man, Dudley Murphy's 1931 film starring Gilda Gray and Walter Fenner.For the back story on this great old tune, check out this earlier Flood Watch article. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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It is always a party when Michelle Hoge — the Floodster whom the late Joe Dobbs years ago lovingly dubbed “Duh Chick Singer”— is in the room, and she was very much in the room Thursday evening for the band's latest visit to Huntington's Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten.Actually this wasn't Michelle first time to perform at the wonderful 7th Avenue venue. Back in 2017, she was among the Floodsters who played in the beer garden on a spring evening soon after the cool cafe open.But this week's performance was her first time since the band has recently started regular visits to the South Side's favorite spot, and it was an epic evening as Pamela's video above illustrates.About the SongMichelle's song in the video is the jazz standard “My Blue Heaven,” which Walter Donaldson wrote one afternoon in 1927 at New York's Friars Club while he was waiting for his turn at the pool table. Later George A. Whiting wrote those clever lyrics just so he could perform it in his vaudeville act with Sadie Burt.It was a big number in 1935 for Jimmie Lunceford and a huge hit in 1956 for New Orleans' Fats Domino. In fact, in the near century since it was written, “My Blue Heaven” has been recorded by everyone from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra to Coleman Hawkins to Leon Redbone. For more about the song's history, check out this earlier Flood Watch article. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Summer is wonderful, of course — and much appreciated after that seeming endless winter — but it brings a bit of blues to the band room. That's because when the temperature's rising and the livin' is easy, Floodsters tend to scurry away in many different directions. New Orleans, Orlando, even France have been among the far-away places that lately temporarily scattered the old gang.In fact, the last time the Bowen House had a full boat for the band's weekly rehearsal was more than three weeks ago. One of the last tunes of that night was this cautionary tale. Think of this bon voyage as a quirky little trip advisory.About the Song“Deep Ellum Blues” isn't really a blues, not structurally, anyway; rather, it is more of a rollicking roadhouse song from deep in the heart of Texas.As reported here earlier, the tune celebrates — advertises? frets over? — a section of Dallas with a sketchy, colorful history. Back to the 1920s, it was down on Deep Ellum where you could rub shoulders with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Huddie Ledbetter, with Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith.Pigeon droppers, reefer men, crap shooters, card sharks and various purveyors of cocaine and bootleg whisky also populated those parts, not to mention the odd gangster (think Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd).“It was the only place recorded on earth where business, religion, hoodooism, gambling and stealing go on at the same time without friction,” said Darwin Payne in his 1982 book Dallas, an Illustrated History.For more about the song's curious history, click here.Finding More Flood SongsIf there are other Flood songs you're in the mood for this morning, the best place to find them is in the free Flood Watch newsletter. The Song Stories department — click here to reach it — offers an alphabetized list of tunes featured in recent weekly podcasts.Once there, just scroll the page and click on a song title to reach an article that includes a recent performance along with a little of composition's history.Or are you in the mood for tunes from a particular time period? Got a 1920s jag going on or are you hankering for a bit of the ‘50s or ‘60s? Check out the “Tunes on a Timeline” section, which re-jiggers all those song links, sorting them into specific decades from pre-1910s up to the present.Click here to reach it. It's ideal for tuning up your time machine. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

The mood can change very quickly in The Flood band room, often depending on whatever is the next song that crosses Charlie Bowen's rattlin' brain.For instance, in the first few seconds of this week's podcast, you'll hear the guys still laughing from the inside jokes and joys of the previous tune, while Bowen is ready to conjure up a more somber mood with some opening chords.Almost at once, Danny Cox and Randy Hamilton recognize the lead-in and join in on the 1950s torch song, “Cry Me a River.” Seconds later, Jack Nuckols is slapping a rhythm and Sam St. Clair is offering moody accents.Anything But PlebeianThe story of this song's troubled childhood — rejected in its first bid for movie stardom, initially passed over by the queen of jazz ballad, etc. — in an earlier post, but let's take another swing at it, this time focusing on a single word in its otherwise rather pedestrian lyrics.The bridge of “Cry Me a River” contains what writer Molly Leikin, in her book How to Write a Hit Song called “the best multisyllabic internal rhyme I've heard.” Specifically, the song rhymes: You told me love was too plebeian with Told me you were through with me'n'…“‘Too plebeian' and ‘through with me'n',” Leikin wrote, “are just as delicious now as when they were first written. This quadruple rhyme isn't just four syllables that rhyme, but four unique syllables.”But Jack Said No, And So Said MitchCool enough, but it was not everybody's cup of tea. In fact, plebeian (which, of course, is a snooty way of saying “commoner”) was just too highfalutin for many show biz folks.For instance, director Jack Webb originally wanted the song for his 1955 movie Pete Kelly's Blues, but he hated the use of the word and when songwriter Arthur Hamilton refused to change it, Webb yanked the song from the film.The lyric had no better luck at Columbia Records where the A&R chief — one Mitch Miller (of early TV's “Sing Along with Mitch” fame) — joined the plebeian haters and blocked it from being recorded there by Peggy King.The Stubborn SongwriterStill the songwriter stood his ground and refused to change his lyric. Wonder why, given the riches promised to Hamilton by having his song included in a Hollywood film? Well, writer John E. Simpson in his online newsletter “Running After My Hat,” has an intriguing theory.As noted in the earlier Flood Watch article, 27-year-old singer and aspiring actress Julie London, who would ultimately record “Cry Me a River” and have a monster hit with it, was married to Jack Webb at the time he would working on Pete Kelly's Blues.When Webb thought it would be a great idea to have some original songs, not just old standards, wife Julie remembered Arthur Hamilton. He was a young guy she'd graduated from high school with; in fact, he'd taken her to the senior prom.She and Arthur had drifted out of touch since their school days in the mid-1940s, but Julie remembered he'd wanted to be a songwriter. She gave him a call, asked if he was still writing music.“I was,” Hamilton recalled years later, “but I was writing them on the backs of prescription blanks, working as a delivery boy for a prominent drugstore chain.”When got the call from Hollywood, Hamilton cranked out three tunes — “He Needs Me,” “Sing a Rainbow” and (ta-duh!) “Cry Me a River” — the first two of which Webb used in the picture, but then Webb blocked the winner of the bunch because of Hamilton's refusal to change that problematic rhyme. Was It Code?So, again, why?“I've got my own pet theory about this,” Simpson writes in his newsletter, “completely unsupported by anything except speculation and a taste for intrigue: I wonder if the word ‘plebeian' was an in-joke of some kind between Hamilton and London? Lord only knows what sort of in-joke it would be. But it's a fun idea, isn't it?”Indeed. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

A storm system will bring widespread showers and thunderstorms to the area today. Some storms could produce damaging winds and large hail. A Flood Watch is in effect for North Texas, including Dallas and Fort Worth until 1 a.m. Wednesday with the possibility of 1 to 3 inches of rainfall. In other news, Dallas City Council and school board elections attracted few eligible voters, a decades long trend that has voting advocates trying to figure out how to make local contests more appealing. According to the county's elections department, Dallas County municipal elections attracted only 8.4% of 1.4 million registered voters; a second teenager has been arrested in connection with the March slaying of a 14-year-old boy in east Oak Cliff. 17-year old Juan Saucedo was arrested Sunday and booked into the Dallas County jail on a capital murder charge in the death of Adam Gutierrez; falling crude prices will eventually translate into lower prices at the gas pump for consumers, but that doesn't mean it's all good news ― especially for Texas-based oil producers; and Paige Bueckers might be getting ready for her rookie season with the Dallas Wings, but she is still on the receiving end of awards for her collegiate career. Bueckers was named the winner of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards' Honda Sport Award for basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the LU Moment, we sit down with Dr. Liv Haselbach and Dr. Nicholas Brake from the LU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to hear about a new flood monitoring program that will help streamline storm recovery efforts in Southeast Texas. For the full transcription of this episode, visit https://lamaru.us/lumomenttranscript.For updates on the latest news and events at Lamar University, visit lamar.edu/news.

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Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

First Alert Weather Day for morning commute heavy rain/storms, Flooding Risk • We are tracking more heavy rainfall for the morning commute today. • A FLOOD WATCH is in effect for most of our viewing area thru this morning. • 1-4" inches of rain fell across our First Alert Neighborhood Weather Station network yesterday, with more adding up today. • Showers will lighten up in coverage near or after lunchtime today • A few isolated showers may redevelop this afternoon on the backside of this system as it moves east. • Highs today in the 60s in SE Georgia and lower to mid 70s in NE Florida • Overnight, we drop to the lower to mid 40s • Tomorrow will be sunny and mild with highs in the mid 70s • The Players Championship practice rounds through most of the weekend look dry and mild. o A few showers/storms are possible Sunday late afternoon / evening as a cold front approaches TODAY: First Alert Weather Day. Heavy showers and thunderstorms for the morning commute. Isolated afternoon showers. HIGH: 72 TONIGHT: Turning mostly clear and chilly. LOW: 46 TUESDAY: Sunny and nice. 46/76 WEDNESDAY: Sunny and warm. 45/80 THURSDAY: Partly sunny. 49/77 FRIDAY: Partly sunny. 55/79 SATURDAY: Partly cloudy and warm. 58/83 SUNDAY: Partly cloudy with late afternoon showers/storms arriving. 61/80

Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

As of Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, A flood watch is in effect for the entire Western New York region, as temperatures are set to spike into the mid 50s Wednesday, accompanied by rain, which could lead to flooding and ice jams Wednesday into Thursday. Hear more about this from meteorologist Andy Parker.

We're preparing for flooding and ice jams as temperatures will enter the 50s Tuesday and potentially the 60s on Wednesday. Meteorologist Liz Jurkowski has the forecast.

MDJ Script/ Top Stories for February 12th Publish Date:  February 12th    Commercial: From the BG Ad Group Studio, Welcome to the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast.    Today is Wednesday, February 12th and Happy Birthday to Peter Gabriel ***02.12.25 - BIRTHDAY – PETER GABRIEL*** I’m Dan Ratcliffe and here are the stories Cobb is talking about, presented by Times Journal Cobb Under Flood Watch Until Thursday Morning South Cobb Library Seeking $3 Million from State for Upgrades Erick Allen, Jaha Howard Headed for Runoff All of this and more is coming up on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  BREAK: Ringling Bros STORY 1: Cobb Under Flood Watch Until Thursday Morning Cobb County is under a flood watch until 7 a.m. Thursday due to heavy rainfall, with up to 4-5 inches expected by Thursday morning and additional showers through the weekend. Some areas could see 6-8 inches total. Cooler temperatures are forecasted due to "cold air damming," with highs in the 50s and 60s this week. The National Weather Service urges caution on roadways, especially at night, as heavy rain may cause limited visibility and potential road washouts. STORY 2: South Cobb Library Seeking $3 Million from State for Upgrades Cobb County is requesting $3 million from the state to expand the South Cobb Regional Library in Mableton. The $4.2 million project, with $1.2 million already locally funded, will add 5,000 square feet for community events, an expanded teen space, and a new computer lab. Opened in 2006, the library is heavily used, especially for computer access. State Rep. Terry Cummings emphasized the need for a larger, modern facility to better serve the community. The Cobb County Library System, with 15 branches and a $17 million budget, serves over 750,000 residents and boasts 418,000 active cardholders. STORY 3: Erick Allen, Jaha Howard Headed for Runoff The race for Cobb County’s District 2 Board of Commissioners seat heads to a runoff between Democrats Erick Allen and Dr. Jaha Howard, with Allen leading at 45.49% and Howard at 42.74%. The runoff is set for March 11, as no candidate secured over 50%. Republican Alicia Adams awaits the winner in the April 29 general election. The seat was vacated after former Commissioner Jerica Richardson was removed due to a court ruling on district maps. Low voter turnout marked the special primary, with only 3.74% of eligible voters participating. Early voting for the runoff begins March 3. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.799.6810 for more info.    We’ll be right back  Break: Ringling Bros STORY 4: New Cobb County Fire Chief Named The Cobb Board of Commissioners appointed Michael Cunningham as the new fire chief on Tuesday. A member of Cobb County Fire & Emergency Services since 2005, Cunningham has risen through the ranks to division chief and chief of staff. He succeeds retired Chief Bill Johnson and will earn an annual salary of $195,000. An Air Force veteran with extensive academic credentials, including a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Cunningham expressed gratitude and excitement for leading the department. His appointment begins February 17, but he has already assumed interim duties. STORY 5: Austell Man Accused of Fleeing Police with Modified Gun Shakur King, 21, of Austell, was arrested on Feb. 5 after crossing Austell Road outside a crosswalk and fleeing from police near Wellstar Cobb Medical Center. Officers found King in possession of a Glock 21 modified to be fully automatic, which he is prohibited from carrying due to a pending felony charge for aggravated battery. 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Incoming storm prompts the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch for the region. Also, volunteers collected information about Butte County's unhoused residents during what's called a Point-in-Time Count, and the Inspire School of Arts and Sciences could break ground on a permanent campus this year, after years of delays and funding woes.

Several severe weather alerts will be taking effect as a strong winter storms system approaches Hawaii. The HNN First Alert Weather Team earlier declared a First Alert Weather Day statewide from Wednesday night through Friday morning. The National Weather Service says a Flood Watch will be in effect for all main Hawaiian islands from Wednesday evening through Friday morning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Also, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick rolls out his top 25 bills for the State Senate, and the United Football League opens its headquarters in Arlington on Wednesday.

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The wildfire in Jasper National Park is getting bigger. The weather is hot and dry, and the fire is still out of control. The risk to the town isn't over. And: Residents near B.C.'s Chilcotin River watch and wait as the water builds up behind a dam created by a landslide. If it breaks, it could flood land below it, and as far along as the Fraser River. Plus: Italian boxer Angela Carini says she wants to apologize to her opponent - Algeria's Imane Khelif - for how she conducted herself moments after their 46-second fight. Carini's reaction fueled an explosion of online accusations about Khelif's gender, much of it based on misinformation. Also…skin diseases in Gaza, prisoner diplomacy, luxury condos in B.C. and more.

The All Local evening Update for Friday, Jul 12th 2024.

Minnesotans are on flood watch this week. After a two year drought and an abnormally dry winter, we've been hit with weeks of rain that's got soil saturated and rivers rising.Several cities including Delano, Henderson and Saint Paul have already closed roads near swollen rivers. Craig Schmidt, a senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Chanhassen joined Minnesota Now to talk about the unusual flooding.MPR News host Cathy Wurzer also talked to Lisa Hiebert, public information officer from the City of Saint Paul's Public Works department, about how the city near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers is planning for high water.

As extreme heat spreads the U.S., 7 million people are under flood watch in Southern Florida. Also, President Biden and Pope Francis meet privately today after Biden secures new Ukraine support.  Plus, Trump meets with Republicans on Capitol Hill, marking his first trip back since the January 6th attack. And, FAA Administrator Whitaker testifies in Congress on aviation safety and Boeing's latest issues.

It's another wet weekend as a rainstorm slams our already soggy region - what does this mean for our water supply? Also, the fast food industry is preparing for a wage hike that goes into effect Monday. Some baby boomers are taking on the shortage of affordable homes for millennials with kids. Plus, we check in on the Bunny Museum in Altadena this Easter Sunday.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com. Support the show: https://laist.com

One surgeon trapped inside Gaza's Nasser Hospital warns that “all the ICU patients will die” as Israel continues to raid the complex. CNN has exclusive details about Russia's efforts to develop a nuclear space weapon. More than 27 million people are under flood watches in California ahead of back-to-back storms. Former president Donald Trump will be in Michigan today ahead of the battleground state's primary. And, we'll explain why New York City is suing some social media companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hundreds of thousands of homes and business have lost power as a powerful storm hits the East Coast. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are facing off in Iowa tonight for a CNN debate. The US has shot down an attack from Houthi Rebels in the Red Sea. The White House has responded to news that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Plus, China claims to have cracked an Apple encryption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices