Dom Flemons

 ( 1982 Births ) 

In 2014, Prospect Hill saw Flemons enlist other musicians on his recording. These included Ron Brendle (bass), Guy Davis (banjo, harmonica, percussion and backing vocals), Keith Ganz (banjo and guitar), Brian Horton (clarinet, saxophone), Ben Hunter (drums, fiddle, backing vocals), Pura Fé (backing vocals), Joe Seamons (backing vocals) and Kobie Watkins (drums). The album saw releases on both the Fat Possum and Music Maker labels. The album received national press coverage. Prospect Hill contained seven of Flemons' own penned tracks out of a total of fourteen on the collection. Flemons was then a member of Music Maker Relief Foundation's Next Generation Artists program, and served on Music Maker's board of directors. He continues to discover young talent for the Foundation to assist and has promoted, recorded, and performed with more mature Music Maker artists including John Dee Holeman, Boo Hanks, Captain Luke, and Macavine Hayes.

Black Cowboys, Flemons' next album, entailed depicting the story of African Americans who helped to shape the American West, and the tunes they were familiar with. They included "Home on the Range", which the field recorder and musicologist John Lomax recorded from a Black cook in San Antonio, and "Goodbye Old Paint," which was first recorded by Lomax, but Flemons discovered that "another musician talked about how he learned the song from an ex-slave who worked for his father on the ranch." That has been credited as the Black cowboys and former slave, Charley Willis. Thus the songs and poems that were used in the ensuing album depicted a century-old story, following the footsteps of thousands of African American pioneers. These included American cowboy Nat Love and Bass Reeves, the first Black Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi, who some believe was the model for the Lone Ranger. Flemons duly wrote a song about the leading black movie cowboy of his time, Bill Pickett, and used other stories including cowboys who became and, in turn, became important figures in the civil rights movement. Black Cowboys (2018) was issued as part of the African American Legacy Recordings series issued in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Flemons played old musical instruments such as the Banjo guitar and pan flute, as was originally used by Henry Thomas.

In 2017, Flemons was featured on David Holt's State of Music on PBS. He also performed as the bluesman Joe Hill Louis on CMT's television program Sun Records. Flemons launched a podcast, American Songster Radio, on WUNC NPR and issued a couple of instructional DVD's via Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop.