Folklore is a topic that has always fascinated me, and I got to play with it a little in my radio work.
Ghosts is a little sound portrait of people’s stories about their brushes with the supernatural.
La Llorona is a story about a woman who goes momentarily insane and drowns her two children in the river by their house. Once she awakens to the reality of what she’s done, she spends eternity wailing as she drifts across the landscape seeking her beloved hijos, in a cautionary tale remembered by all Mexican children.
And then there’s my hero, John Henry, a legend to which I have a gut attachment. The story, both recounted and sung, begins in the hollers of West Virginia.