Dom Flemons: “Old Corn Liquor”

About

“Old Corn Liquor,” performed by Dom Flemons, “The American Songster.” 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. He learned “Old Corn Liquor” from NEA National Heritage Fellow Joe Thompson (1918-2012). The American Folklife Center’s recordings of Joe Thompson and his relatives are collection AFC 1976/033, and can be heard in the Folklife Reading Room.

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Library of Congress, in Library of Congress: talks and concerts

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Library of Congress

Language

English

Country

United States

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