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This week in Philly music, Dom Flemons plays City Winery. And Taylor Swift drops ‘Tortured Poets Department’ right in time for Record Store Day.Dom Flemons, the Grammy winning musician known as 'The American Songster,' plays City Winery Philadelphia on Thursday April 18.has trademarked the moniker “the American Songster” and made a fruitful career of bringing Black roots music history back to life.
Of course, the pop music superstar making genre-busting moves in the Black country space these days is Beyoncé, whose duet with Miley Cyrus “II Most Wanted,” features steel guitarist Matthew Pynn, who also played onis a bright lights moment for the Black country and roots music that Flemons has been advocating for, going back to“It was a blast,” Flemons says, but won’t reveal the victor. “It was a nail biter, I’ll tell you that.
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