John Henry exists as a myth, a famous figure immortalized in multiple ballads. As you’ll recall from these “hammer songs,” John Henry was a steel-drivin’ man who, at the dawn of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...