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Latest episodes
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9 min
Dom Flemons: He's A Lone Ranger - WUNC's Songs We Love Podcast
Songs We Love is a series and a podcast that looks at the stories behind some of the songs we're playing on our new music discovery station, WUNC Music . On this episode we're feat…
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13 min
Black Women in the West: American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 1
The second season of Dom Flemon's American Songster Radio podcast is released today, Friday, October 26. In this episode of American Songster Radio , Dom discusses the song “Black…
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15 min
Western Songsters and Cowboy Tradition: American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 2
This is episode two from season two of American Songster Radio .
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13 min
Lead Belly, "The Singing Cowboy": American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 3
This is episode three from season two of American Songster Radio .
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14 min
Pullman Porters and the Road to Civil Rights: American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 4
This is epsidoe four from season two of American Songster Radio .
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12 min
The Real Lone Ranger: American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 5
This is episode five from season two of American Songster Radio .
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13 min
Sources Of A Classic Cowboy Song: American Songster Radio Season 2 Episode 6
This is the sixth and final episode from season two of American Songster Radio .
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3 min
Introducing Black Cowboys: American Songster Radio S02 Episode 0
The cowboy is an icon of American culture. But the popular image of the white cowboy skews our perception of what kind of Americans did—and do—cowboying work. The American West aft…
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10 min
The Bands That Shaped "'Til The Seas Run Dry": American Songster Radio Episode 17
When Dom Flemons set out to make his 2014 release Prospect Hill , he knew he wanted it to be an eclectic record. For variety, he assembled two different bands, each one a fantasy l…
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16 min
What Else Does the Banjo Sound Like? American Songster Radio Episode 16
Young banjo players Jerron Paxton and Kaia Kater hail from places that are pretty far removed from the American South. But as they learned their instruments and connected with banj…
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11 min
"Making Hot Chicken": American Songster Radio Episode 15
When Dom Flemons visited a legendary fried chicken joint in Nashville, inspiration struck him like a wave of cayenne heat:
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12 min
More Tunes And Tales From Vegas: American Songster Radio Episode 14
When Dom Flemons first came across the story of African American songster Gus Cannon, one fact took him by surprise. "[Gus Cannon] was a blackface performer, but he was a black man…
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10 min
Dom Combines Fife And Drum Music With Early Hip Hop - American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 13
When Dom Flemons was in the studio making his album Prospect Hill , the engineer made a casual comment that pushed the material in an unexpected direction. “Maybe you should sell s…
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19 min
Laurent Dubois: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 12
In 2005, Laurent Dubois had an encounter that would spark his transformation from a historian with a banjo to a historian of the banjo. It was an unusual example of the instrument…
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29 min
Jerron Paxton In Conversation And In Concert: American Songster Radio Episode 11
The young folk musician Jerron Paxton defies easy categorization. He grew up in a west coast metropolis, but his family and community adhered to customs from the rural south. And,…
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32 min
Kaia Kater In Conversation And In Concert: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 10
The birth of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University has become the stuff of folk music legend. “Of course it was an academic…
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54 min
Cowboy Songs: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 9
What makes a song a folk song, anyway? One familiar answer is that a folk song is a song without an author. Folk song scholars even have a name for the theory that some songs emerg…
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24 min
Martin Simpson: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 8
On Episode 8 of American Songster Radio, host Dom Flemons speaks with his recent musical collaborator, the legendary English guitarist Martin Simpson. Dom Flemons and Martin Simpso…
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21 min
Jake Fussell: American Songster Podcast Radio Episode 7
Jake Fussell didn’t have to look far for musical inspiration in his home state of Georgia. Even before he picked up a guitar, he was surrounded by some of the region’s most storied…
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21 min
The Life And Adventures Of Folklorist Bill Ferris: American Songster Radio Podcast Episode 6
Meet Bill Ferris On the first Sunday of every month, Bill Ferris attended an African-American church on the farm where he grew up. Over time Ferris, a white child, became a routine…