Listening to music can be an emotional experience that stirs you to sadness, joy or exhilaration. Music can also take you on a stimulating intellectual journey that has you appreciating form, structure, history and cultural idioms. However, music is perhaps most magical when it is both emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative. Dom Flemons’s brand ofold-timey folk musicfalls into this more magical realm.

For most, Valerie June’s success to date seems meteoric. This Southern gal from Jackson, Tennessee has already wowed British audiences on the legendary music show “Later… with Jools Holland”, an iconic musical program that has showcased everyone from Paul McCartney to Björk. She sang a duet withEric Church at the American Country Music Awardsin 2013. She, along with her distinctive dreadlocked mane, has enjoyed features in countless magazines, including the coveted September issue ofVoguemagazine andO: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, as well as serious features on NPR’sAll Things Considered,Fresh Airwith Terry Gross andTiny Desk Concert. And, her last and much talked about 2013 debut albumPushin’ Against the Stone, was the creative product of her collaboration with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and record producer Kevin Augunas.