"Calling oneself The American Songster ("since 2009," his website helpfully adds) places one large heap of expectations on the shoulders of the man brave enough to adopt the moniker. But Dom Flemons doesn't carry that nickname out of braggadocio - it's because he's put in the work. His explorations of both American roots music and generations of underreported Black life have revealed an artist who's deeply interested in telling the stories we need to hear, as well as giving us a musician who can play, well, pretty much anything. Flemons' new album, Traveling Wildfire, gives us a few stories about the man himself, one who's confronting the reality that comes from an itinerant musician forced to stay home".