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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.

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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......

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[ Sat, 13 May 2006 12:00:31 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:51:37 -0600 ]

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......

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[ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:45:30 -0600 ]

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......

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[ Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:55:54 -0600 ]

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......

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[ Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:53:26 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:00:57 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:47:47 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:18:14 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:27:28 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:32:03 -0500 ]

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.......

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[ Mon, 23 May 2005 10:00:41 -0500 ]

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......

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[ Sun, 22 May 2005 11:03:52 -0500 ]

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