{"product_id":"flemons-dom-making-american-music-the-smithsonian-sessions","title":"Flemons, Dom - Making American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions","description":"Following his two touchstone releases on Smithsonian Folkways, Flemons returns\nwith \u003ci\u003eMaking American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e, the first album of roots music\nto be recorded on historic instruments from the collection of the National Museum of\nAmerican History. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerforming solo and with his new all-star Black string band, The\nTraveling Wildfires, as well as longtime Smithsonian staff, Flemons breathes new life\ninto guitars played by Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John Hurt, quills made by Joe\nPatterson, and more, through his original compositions and traditional songs written\nover two centuries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiner notes by Flemons and Smithsonian curator and co-producer\nJohn Troutman illuminate the instruments, repertoire, and creative process behind\nthis extraordinary convergence of American songcraft, musicianship, and sound.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first ever folk music album made using instruments entirely from the Smithsonian\nInstitute collection, including guitars played by Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John\nHurt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nDom Flemons -- the multi- instrumentalist, scholar, GRAMMY Award- winner, EMMY\nAward- nominee, and \"leader in 21st- century folk music\" (NPR) -- guides listeners\nthrough an entertaining and enlightening 21- track history of vernacular musics,\nencompassing folk, early jazz, blues, bluegrass, sacred, Hawaiian steel guitar, and\nbeyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFeatures songs from the repertoires of legends like Ramblin' Jack Elliott, The Monroe\nBrothers, Doc Watson, The Stanley Brothers, Billy Strings, Mississippi John Hurt,\nLightnin' Hopkins, Washington Phillips, and Elizabeth Cotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIncludes detailed liner notes on the project by Dom and Smithsonian curator and co-producer\nJohn Troutman, on the album, the songs, and the instruments.","brand":"Smithsonian Folkways","offers":[{"title":"2LP","offer_id":67717355897110,"sku":"RMX-76846","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":67717356323094,"sku":"RMX-76847","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/95531384-02c6-4350-955c-01feefa1c532_3d98051e-4ca0-4373-99e1-afb3b0d326aa.jpg?v=1791975624","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/flemons-dom-making-american-music-the-smithsonian-sessions","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}