Dom Flemons: Black Cowboys

Grammy Award Winner, Two-Time Emmy Nominee, and 2020 United States Artists Fellow Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster” since his repertoire of music covers over 100 years of early American popular music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record collector, and one of the founding members of The Carolina Chocolate Drops. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones.

Black Cowboys is a collection of seldom-heard stories about the roles of African Americans played in settling the West after the American Civil War.