Dom Flemons (2024) 03

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Dom Flemons (2024) 03
Dom Flemons (2024) 03

26th June 2024 at Cecil Sharp House (Kennedy Hall), London NW1.

Country: United States. Style: Traditional American Folk - Songster.

Lineup: Dom Flemons (v/g/banjo/harmonica/quills/bones) and guest: Patrick Blaney (d).

Dom Flemons is from Phoenix, AZ and now lives in Chicago, IL. He describes himself as an American Songster. The term Songster was popularised by Blues historian Paul Oliver (though it can be found before him largely with a less specific meaning). He used it primarily in relation to the "Race records" of the 1920s to 1940s (a phrase used by record labels for recordings by African Americans performers marketed to an African American market) which were not Blues. For Oliver Songsters were Black "entertainers" who performed a wide variety of musical styles (e.g. ballads, minstrel songs) and not just Blues. At this gig Flemoms shifted between Blues, Old Time, Country, a Spititual and Ragtime. He perforned songs he learned from Joe Thompson, recordings at the Library of Congress, Elizabeth Cotton, Henry Thomas, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mississippi Jjohn Hurt, Rev Gary Davis, etc. He also sang several of his own compositons. For most of these he was joined by a drummer - Patrick Blaney from North Antrim and now Liverpool-based who has played with the bands Stonemasons and A Burial At Sea. This was the sixth time I have seen Flemons live. The others were with the Carolina Chocolate Drops in 2008 and 2010, with Martin Simpson in 2014, and solo in 2016 (www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/albums/72157671950200386/).and in 2018 at the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention (www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/albums/72157674698729597/).
More information: theamericansongster.com/, www.facebook.com/DomFlemonsMusic/.

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