Down In The Flood Podcasts

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Dowsing for the wellsprings of American music, Down In The Flood plunges into the sounds and history of American popular music from the 1830s to the present in a series of 30-40 minute shows. Primary Format : Alternative Also Listed as: Alternative Americana City : New York State/Province : NY Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: New music | Americana | Music | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Down In The Flood Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Down In The Flood Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Down In The Flood Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Episode 12: Springsteen, Seeger & Community-Made Music With his new album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen becomes one in a long line of American popular musicians who have turned to old time music to summon a community. The appeal of old-time is that in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 11: Pops Staples Superstar Roebuck Pops Staples, founder of The Staple Singers, is a forgotten master--a singer, songwriter, bandleader and guitarist whose music formed a direct bridge between the likes of Charley Patton and the likes of Bob Dylan. Born in Winona, MS in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 10: Best of 2005 It's year-end list-making time, and DITF celebrates our records of the year: Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 You Ain't Talkin to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music Soul's Chapel - Marty... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 9: The Minstrel Roots of Country For most of the last 50 years blackface minstrelsy has been a taboo topic. The very image of men in burnt cork blackface has been a shocking symbol of national shame ever since Brown v. Board of Education started... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 8: There's Good Rockin' Tonight What is this thing we call rocking? A sound, a state of mind, a beat....More than the stomp of ragtime or the backbeat of jazz, rocking is the sound of a perpetual downstroke. Not 1-2-3-4, but 1-1-1-1. All drive... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 7: R.H. Harris&the Invention of Soul In the early days of gospel music there were two ways of singing. The first style came out of the post-Civil War black universities where groups harmonized on spirituals that were old even then, rolling their R's and clicking... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 6: John Henry&Stagger Lee This is the tale of two men, two black men, two tough sons of bitches immortalized in American song. Two ballads and identities that tell us all we need to know about sex, and race, and danger in America's first... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5: 4th of July Special--This Is My Country Every Down in the Flood podcast is a celebration of American culture, that bastard, contradictory morass of our basest desires and our highest ideals. After all, American music sounds the way it does because it expresses and resolves the core... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 4: Steel Guitar Blues The lonesome swoop of the steel guitar is one of the most immediately identifiable sounds in American music, a distinguishing mark of honky tonk authenticity. But steel guitar playing in America precedes the honky tonk genre by almost 50... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 3: Sister Rosetta's Gospel Boogie If Sister Rosetta Tharpe had been a secular singer she would be hailed today as the original female rocker, a giant one par with genre defining greats like Hank Williams and Muddy Waters, a figure as revered as her... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 2: Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and The Big Bang of Rock and Roll The Big Bang of rock and roll came in the form of two records cut less than 12 months apart --one by a teenaged Tennesse truckdriver, the other by a 30-year-old veteran chitlin' circuit guitar player from St. Louis.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 1: Bob Dylan's Old, Weird America When Bob Dylan first began casting his dancing spell our way, weaving epic, surreal songs that connected back to America's railroad earth, his art seemed unique. But thanks to the work of critics like Griel Marcus, and thanks to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website