“Traveling Wildfire”
New Album
Dom Flemons has built a reputation on presenting 100 years of American roots music, but now, with Traveling Wildfire, his own songwriting prowess comes into the spotlight. Carefully selected from his personal repertoire, these original songs reveal his love of country, western, blues, Americana, bluegrass and folk music as they tell of true love, family legacy, survival, time travel, and the juxtaposition between light and dark. Traveling Wildfire weaves through the themes of hope and humor as it rises above the hard times with strength and lightheartedness.
“I hope people will be able to hear the different phases of my life through the lyrics and feel the energy that fuels my creativity within the songs. The past few years for me have been a time of deep reflection and meditation. I hope that the album will light a fire of inspiration inside everyone who experiences it.” -Dom Flemons “The American Songster
Slow Dance With You
“When I was coming up with these particular numbers for Traveling Wildfire, I wanted to have a flavor of very traditional Country & Western music that could also reflect the Black experience from my perspective,” Flemons says. “One of the things that I’ve noticed since Black Cowboys is that people are wanting to hear more Black country music that reflects both their culture, environment, and values while still sounding like it’s rooted in tradition.
The very first single “Slow Dance With You” is actually the first song you’ll hear on the record! It is an original country love song that I wrote for everyone and every type of relationship!
You can hear it now on all streaming platforms!
Guess I’m Doing Fine
With the second single ‘Guess I’m Doing Fine’ I present my version of an unreleased Bob Dylan song that he recorded in 1964. The songs powerful lyrics about resilience in the face of insurmountable odds have resonated with me since I first heard it on a bootleg CD 20 years ago. After cutting ‘Guess I’m Doing Fine,’ I realized that it would be cool to add a fiddle part to pull out the strains of bluegrass that I found in the song’s structure. I am so fortunate and grateful that my friend Sam Bush was available to add his fiddle to this lively track and bring some of that old-timey flavor.
Special thank you to Bob Dylan and thanks to my manager Jeff DeLia for reaching out to Dylan’s team to make it all happen! This track came to life because of the creative vision of my producer Ted Hutt and the beautiful fiddle playing of Sam Bush. Altogether, I’m playing five instruments in the studio at Kingsize Soundlabs in LA and even though this was originally an acoustic song I wanted it to be a hot bluegrass number that would get people excited!
It’s Cold Inside
‘It’s Cold Inside’ was written in 2014, after my professional and personal life unexpectedly unraveled in front of my eyes. In 2010, an injury I suffered on stage brought many years of both physical and mental exhaustion, including extreme body trauma that continues to follow me after years of hard, worldwide traveling. I wrote the song in a dark period of my life and set it aside until I decided to revisit it for this album. I found that the lyrics held new relevance for me. It became clear that many people around the world have been physically and emotionally strained by the pandemic and the surrounding political, social, and cultural changes that have followed in its wake. With ‘It’s Cold Inside,’ I extend my hand to them in good faith.”
