Dom Flemons was born in 1982, but he channels the sounds of ragtime, Piedmont blues, southern folk and jug-band music like someone from another time. Despite his penchant for the musical traditions of yesteryear, the Carolina Chocolate Drops cofounder is neither an anachronism nor a reenactor. He takes a new-school approach to old-fangled tunes, aiming, as his website states, “to create new soundscapes that generate interest in old-time folk music.” With his banjo, harmonica, fife and bones in tow, the self-proclaimed “American Songster” takes listeners on a sonic journey through time with selections from his first post-Chocolate Drops solo album, Prospect Hill.
