# Conversation with Dom Flemons, The American Songster

This video features an interview with Dom Flemons, recorded in September 2020 for the Homegrown Concert and Interview Series. A Grammy award winner, two-time Emmy nominee and 2019 Wammie Award winner, Dom Flemons is originally from Phoenix, Arizona. In 2005, he co-founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops, with whom he won a Grammy award. He left the group to pursue a solo career in 2014. Today his repertoire of music covers more than 100 years of American folklore, ballads and tunes. Flemons is a music scholar, historian and record collector, as well as a multi-instrumentalist who plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills and rhythm bones. In 2018, he released the album “Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys” on Smithsonian Folkways and received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. In 2023, he released the solo album Traveling Wildfire, which was also nominated for the Best Folk Album Grammy. For about two decades Flemons has done research using the collections of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. He was the first artist featured in the Center’s inaugural Archive Challenge in 2015 and his repertoire includes many songs and tunes he learned from recordings of master musicians in the American Folklife Center archives.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 1 h 28 min
- By: Winick, Stephen
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10818/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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