Dom Flemons - Black Cowboys (2018) / Prospect Hill-The American Songster Omnibus (2014, 2-CD reissue 2020)

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Journey through the past

Dom Flemons is a unique musician. Self-baptized “the American Songster” since his eponymous 2009 solo album featuring early American roots music styles (blues, folk, cowboy songs, old-time banjo, jug band, fife and drum...) while he was still a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops band (1), he extended his musical approach to ethno-musicology and history of music on his next ambitious projects : "Prospect Hill" (2014) and "Black Cowboys" (2018). "Prospect Hill" was extended to a 2-CD set featuring new material in 2020.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops : l. to r., Dom
Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson

Half Afro-American, half of Mexican descent, Flemons was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He studied English at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, where he met Súle Greg Wilson, a local percussionist, banjo player and folklorist who became a mentor to him.

In the end of 2005, Flemons and Wilson, with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson formed the old-time string band, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, based in Durham, North Carolina. While active in the band, Flemons was leading a parallel solo career, but in the end of 2013 he left the group to pursue his "Prospect Hill" project.