Excerpt selection: Early Inspirations
Ending Music: Dom Flemons “Too Long I’ve Been Gone”
Dom Flemons and Rissi Palmer, Part 1
DOM FLEMONS is a performer, multi-instrumentalist, historian, researcher, writer, record collector, and founding members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. In his performances, “The American Songster” presents music covering over 100 years of American popular music.
RISSI PALMER made her debut in Nashville as a country artist in the early 2000s, where she made it onto the country charts and onto the Opry stage. She has since left Nashville to continue her career as an independent artist and has her own radio show on Apple Music Country called Color Me Country, where she has conversations with country music’s underrepresented voices.
Topics covered in Part One of the discussion:
- Intro Performance: Rissi Palmer “Seeds”
- Musical Beginnings
- Early Inspirations
- Influence of Black Identity on their Music Careers
- Outro performance: Dom Flemons “Too Long I’ve Been Gone”