Today’s episode brings a performance from Dom Flemons, a purveyor of old-timey (pre-WWII) folk music rooted in African-American idioms.

Well, “folk music” may not do it justice; Flemons’s music ranges over spirituals, blues, jug band music, string band music, murder ballads — just about anything rooted in early 20th-century black culture.  Read more here. – VOX