About This Song
About "Wnyc Radio Program - Folk Songs of America December 12, 1940: John Hardy" by Woody Guthrie
Guthrie's 1940 WNYC broadcast of 'John Hardy' turns a murder ballad into a live-wire transmission: scratchy strings, a voice like a cracked bell. The calm of archival preservation trembles with the unease of a killer's fate, folk song as both artifact and electric current.
