/tags/american-songster-radio American Songster Radio en-US Copyright Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:26:24 GMT /arts-culture/2018-11-09/dom-flemons-hes-a-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, ąĎÉńapp Music.On… Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:26:24 GMT /arts-culture/2018-11-09/dom-flemons-hes-a-lone-ranger-wuncs-songs-we-love-podcast Brian Burns, Eric Hodge /arts-culture/2018-10-26/black-women-in-the-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… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:19:00 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/black-women-in-the-west-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-1 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-26/western-songsters-and-cowboy-tradition-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-2 This is episode two from season two of American Songster Radio.African-Americans made up as much as a quarter of the cattle range work force in the Old… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:18:23 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/western-songsters-and-cowboy-tradition-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-2 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-26/lead-belly-the-singing-cowboy-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-3 This is episode three from season two of American Songster Radio.Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") met the song collector John Lomax at the Angola… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:10:30 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/lead-belly-the-singing-cowboy-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-3 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-26/pullman-porters-and-the-road-to-civil-rights-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-4 This is epsidoe four from season two of American Songster Radio.In 1854, Nat Love - aka "Deadwood Dick" - was born into slavery in Tennessee. At a young… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:08:00 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/pullman-porters-and-the-road-to-civil-rights-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-4 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-26/the-real-lone-ranger-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-5 This is episode five from season two of American Songster Radio.Bass Reeves was born into slavery in 1838 in the "Texarkana" region of the South. Legend… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:02:00 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/the-real-lone-ranger-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-5 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-26/sources-of-a-classic-cowboy-song-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-6 This is the sixth and final episode from season two of American Songster Radio."Goodbye, Old Paint" is one of the most famous cowboy songs. The first… Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-26/sources-of-a-classic-cowboy-song-american-songster-radio-season-2-episode-6 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2018-10-22/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… Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:33:17 GMT /arts-culture/2018-10-22/introducing-black-cowboys-american-songster-radio-s02-episode-0 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2017-12-14/the-bands-that-shaped-til-the-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… Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:14:34 GMT /arts-culture/2017-12-14/the-bands-that-shaped-til-the-seas-run-dry-american-songster-radio-episode-17 Dom Flemons /arts-culture/2017-11-19/what-else-does-the-banjo-sound-like-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… Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:13:50 GMT /arts-culture/2017-11-19/what-else-does-the-banjo-sound-like-american-songster-radio-episode-16 Joe O'Connell