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Dom Flemons - "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad" Official Music Video

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Dom Flemons - "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad" [Official Music Video]
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Watch the official music video for "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad" by Dom Flemons, from 'Black Cowboys' out March 23th, 2018 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Dom Flemons: Guitar, vocal Brian Farrow: Fiddle and background vocal Dante Pope: Cow "rhythm" bones and background vocal Dan Sheehy: GuitarrĂ³n 'Black Cowboys' available on CD, Vinyl 2xLP, and Digital. Stream/download/purchase: Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/dom-flemons/black-cowboys Bandcamp: https://domflemons.bandcamp.com/album/black-cowboys "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad" is a favorite of the old-time string bands. Square dance music was a big part of the cowboy's life on the range when the instruments and players were available. In an article written for the Saturday Evening Post in 1925, Will C. Barnes explained, "These singers did much toward keeping up the range songs and spreading them through the cow country." Dom Flemons: https://theamericansongster.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DomFlemonsMusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/domflemons Twitter: https://twitter.com/domflemons Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: https://twitter.com/Folkways Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithsonianfolkways The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.
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2 min 48 sec
YouTube Keywords
music folk "Woody Guthrie" "Pete Seeger" Smithsonian Folkways old-time non-profit
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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smithsonianfolkways
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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2018-04-16T18:32:19.000Z
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