“The Ballad of John Henry” is the most reproduced folk song of all time, and like the ballad the character John Henry looms large in our culture, coming up in various forms of entertainment, literature and art time and time again. Filmmakers of the 2020 film “John Henry” Will Forbes and Douglas Skinner join Panama Jackson,narrator of the "Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend" audiobook, cultural commentator, and columnist at the Grio, and author Scott Reynolds Nelson to discuss the enduring fasincationation and presence of the John Henry archetype in pop culture.

Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend is available wherever books are sold. The audiobook is available on Spotify, Apple, Audible and anywhere else you listen to audiobooks.

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