en http://wunc.org/topic/american-songster-radio-podcast https://static.feedpress.com/logo/wunc_americansongster.png Music Society & Culture/Personal Journals nonadult American Songster Radio North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC http://feedpress.me/WUNC_americansongster folk music, American music, music Dom Flemons with new ways of listening to old music. American Songster Radio http://wunc.org/topic/american-songster-radio-podcast Dom Flemons presents new ways of listening to old music. en Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:43:54 +0000 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC kweston@wunc.org Dom Flemons with new ways of listening to old music. no Season Two of American Songster Radio is coming. New episodes are set for release on Friday October 26, 2018. This time The American Songster, Dom Flemons, takes us on a musical journey exploring the tunes, trails and tales of Black Cowboys. Dom illuminates an oft-hidden Wild West history through songs and poems, casting new light on a part of American identity that is often overlooked in the telling of American history. This series accompanies Dom’s latest album for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings called Dom Flemons presents Black Cowboys . The six-part series will be available on iTunes , Stitcher , Google Podcasts , and other podcast platforms, including NPR . Note: Scroll down to see a list of episodes. Subscribe with iTunes , Google Play Podcasts , or other podcatcher American Songster Radio is a monthly look at the roots of American Popular music. It’s hosted by world renowned musician and folklorist Dom Flemons who playfully refers to himself as The American Songster. Dom was a no kweston@wunc.org North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016018/dom-flemons-hes-lone-ranger-wuncs-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 featuring 'He's A Lone Ranger' by Dom Flemons. It's a song off of his latest ]]> bburns@wunc.org (Brian Burns) 135029 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:26:24 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 529 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016019/black-women-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 Woman” and revisits the lives of figures like Bridget “Biddy” Mason and ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134198 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:19:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 777 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016020/western-songsters-and-cowboy-tradition-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-2 This is episode two from season two of American Songster Radio . ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134200 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:18:23 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 894 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016021/lead-belly-singing-cowboy-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-3 This is episode three from season two of American Songster Radio . ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134201 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:10:30 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 803 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016022/pullman-porters-and-road-civil-rights-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-4 This is epsidoe four from season two of American Songster Radio . ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134205 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:08:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 842 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016023/real-lone-ranger-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-5 This is episode five from season two of American Songster Radio . ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134206 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:02:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 697 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016024/sources-classic-cowboy-song-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-6 This is the sixth and final episode from season two of American Songster Radio . ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134207 as https://www.wunc.org Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 761 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016025/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 after the Civil War was a dynamic and ethnically diverse place. As many as a ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 134009 as https://www.wunc.org Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:33:17 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 192 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016026/bands-shaped-til-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 line up of top players. ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 114814 as https://www.wunc.org Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:14:34 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 628 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016027/what-else-does-banjo-sound-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 banjo mentors, they found old-time music well beyond its reputed home region. ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 113035 as https://www.wunc.org Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:13:50 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 972 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016028/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: ]]> kweston@wunc.org (Keith Weston) 108928 as https://www.wunc.org Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:09:33 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 632 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016029/more-tunes-and-tales-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," Flemons says, recalling his initial reaction. "How can this be? That you ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 106654 as https://www.wunc.org Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:22:33 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 711 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016030/dom-combines-fife-and-drum-music-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 some of those beats to a hip-hop artist!” the engineer quipped. ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 104085 as https://www.wunc.org Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:30:24 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 619 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016031/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 that began to deepen his curiosity—a Haitian artifact that had languished ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 100548 as https://www.wunc.org Mon, 15 May 2017 13:57:09 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1139 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016032/jerron-paxton-conversation-and-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, like a number of people in Los Angeles with Louisiana roots, he inherited a ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 98918 as https://www.wunc.org Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:00:36 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1762 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016033/kaia-kater-conversation-and-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 event,” Dom Flemons notes of the conference, “but it was also based on the ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 96145 as https://www.wunc.org Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:33:36 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1929 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016034/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 emerge without any one person composing them. They call it "communal creation." ]]> KWeston@mail.wuncfm.unc.edu (Keith Weston) 95322 as https://www.wunc.org Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:13:24 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 3250 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016035/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 Simpson have worked together since 2014, when the pair received a joint ]]> kweston@wunc.org (Keith Weston) 92638 as https://www.wunc.org Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:15:38 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1412 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016036/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 performers and committed documentarians. Fussell grew up in the town of ]]> kweston@wunc.org (Keith Weston) 90393 as https://www.wunc.org Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:55:41 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1269 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://feedpress.me/link/15166/13016037/life-and-adventures-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 presence at the church. He especially loved participating in the church’s ]]> kweston@wunc.org (Keith Weston) 88419 as https://www.wunc.org Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:50:10 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 1283 no folk music, American music, music North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC