The 1937 Flood is featured on its debut album, "The Band, Not the Natural Disaster."

The saga continues with The 1937 Flood Plays Up a Storm, featuring "Music from the Mountains Sets You Free," the theme song the boys wrote for Joe Dobbs' weekly "Music from the Mountains" broadcast on W.Va. Public Radio.

In addition, the boys also back up Joe Dobbs, one of the band's founding members, of his stand-out album, "Fiddle and The Flood."

Today called "West Virginia's most eclectic string band," The 1937 Flood was born some 25 years ago, when Joe Dobbs was walking through an arts and crafts fair in Huntington, W.Va., heard Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen playing their music and said to himself: "These boys could use some help!"

Since then, the band has had many configurations, but always at the heart of The Flood have been Joe on fiddle, Dave on Autoharp and Charlie on guitar. Now the guys have happily been joined by three more veteran musicians: bassist Doug Chaffin of Ashland, Ky., and tenor banjo player Chuck Romine and harmonica honker Sam St. Clair, both of Huntington.

The 1937 Flood is nothing if not eclectic. On any given evening, the boys are likely to play Irish and Appalachian fiddle tunes backed by crazy jugband music of the 1920s. Folk classics by Dylan, Lightfoot and Prine might be sandwiched between the band's own unique versions of standards like "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Stormy Weather" and "Sweet Georgia Brown," or maybe a blues by Mississippi John Hurt, or perhaps some three-part harmony on a West Virginia anthem by Hazel Dickens. Usually, even they don't know what they'll be playing next.