![]() I played jug as well as Big Head Joe, the name of my six-string banjo, on it as well as bones and harmonica. Also, I was a part of a Grammy nominated album this year, Tyler Childers Long Violent History. I played jug on that and Branford Marsalis put it together and I have always been an advocate for Ma Rainey. That is a song from The Louisville Jug Band. Skip, Skat, Doodle-Do from the soundtrack of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Over the past couple of years there are a couple of highlights I would like to point out. When it comes to bluesier stuff I have a little of Reverend Gary Davis on it and I have a couple of bluesy banjo numbers as well as a couple of original country blues songs that I wrote. Now we are working on the rest of it the packaging and stuff like that. I just finished recording a new record and that should be out next year. I always forget to mention him, but I love Sleepy John’s stuff. There are a few more standard people like Blind Lemon, Charley Patton, and Sleepy John Estes. People like Peg Leg Howell, Barbecue Bob, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Sid Hemphill, and Jim Jackson. ![]() I have always been a fan of the musicians on the fringe areas of Blues scholarship. If I were to move over to the post war Blues, I’ve always been a fan of Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. Henry Ragtime Texas Thomas, Papa Charlie Jackson, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, and Son House. Who are your favorite Blues and Folk artists? I look at the Old-Time Music, the originals of Black Banjo Music for the Carolinas, the fiddle and the sounds of folks like Sid Hemphill, Henry Thomas, and Peg Leg Howell.” In 2022, Northern Arizona University awarded Dom with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. ![]() It can never be as good as the original, so I make the music fit my own style. A founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dom Flemons has released five albums under his own name.įlemons says, “I want to experiment rather than to merely replicate. He has performed with Mike Seeger, Joe Thompson, Martin Simpson, Boo Hanks, Taj Mahal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Guy Davis, and The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. He is known as The American Songster and his music consists and spans over a century of American Folklore, Ballads, and Tunes. He plays multiple instruments including banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, percussion, rhythm bones, and quills. Dom Flemons is an American Grammy-winning Old-Time Music, Piedmont Blues, and Country Blues singer and songwriter. ![]()
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