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Dom Flemons

About

Dom Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and slam poet. He is also a tradition bearer of American roots music. Among his honors are those from the Grammy Awards, the Living Blues Awards, and the International Folk Music Awards, as well as a 2020 United States Artists Fellowship in Traditional Arts. Flemons is the founding host of American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee. His most recent album is Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2023). “The Final Gift” is a new traditional ballad poem written and performed by Flemons, commissioned for this issue.

Articles

Issue 83, Winter 2013

Can You Blame Gus Cannon?

By Dom Flemons

It's Got Ahold of Me

By Dom Flemons
Issue 91, Winter 2015

Lead Me Home

He’d found solace in his newest and greatest creation. Now, he just needed to find someone to sing the song.

By Dom Flemons
Issue 123, Winter 2023

The Final Gift

A letter came to Marie’s door That had sailed from across the sea Sent by her true love saying Love, come rendezvous with me

By Dom Flemons

DOM FLEMONS PERFORMS GUS CANNON

Dom Flemons performing "Can You Blame the Colored Man" by Memphis string band leader Gus Cannon.

By Dom Flemons