John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry and perhaps the mighty strength of a man named John Henry. According to legend, with pure strength, stubborn determination and a single hammer, Henry took on ...

Johnson himself will work as a producer and also play steel-driving' man John Henry, who in the famed folk song defeated a steel-powered drill in a race that led to his death. In a Facebook post ...

Alston concluded the story ballad by saying, “But no buckshot would stop the stories and songs to be told throughout this land” about Big John Henry, the steel-driving man and leader of the ...

Dwayne Johnson announced on Instagram that he would be portraying mythical African-American figure John Henry in an upcoming ... My childhood hero. The steel driving man and his disruptive band ...

John Henry is ... another way to say man vs. himself - we do, after all, create the machines - the folklore is as powerful today as it was back in the 1800s when the steel-driving man beat a ...

My childhood hero. The steel driving man and his disruptive band of international folklore legends. JOHN HENRY & THE STATESMEN @sevenbucksprod @danygarciaco @hhgarcia41 @flynnpictureco @NETFLIX A ...

The Norristown native and Iron Age are teaming up to tell the tale of John Henry, the great steel-driver who raced ... well known as the ultimate tale of man versus machine.

The ubiquitous “hammer” songs involving the legendary John Henry ... the man of steel,” Nelson explained. Nelson’s book reads like a historical mystery, chronicling the author’s pursuit of the ...

Terry Crews and Ludacris’ dramatic thriller “John Henry” has been set for a ... The original folk hero story centers on a “steel-driving man” tasked with hammering a steel drill into ...