A Man of Coastal Sorrow

American cryptid folklore and Appalachian folk horror, set to bluegrass and the old string-band tradition. Fiddle, banjo, upright bass, and a story everyone in the holler already half believes. The Mothman over Point Pleasant in the last year before the bridge came down. The Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens. The Bell Witch, who answered back. Roanoke, erased. The lights on Brown Mountain that no one has explained. These are the songs the backroads kept when the cities forgot, murder ballads for things that were never quite men. Played straight, played sad, played the way you play when the thing in the song might be listening.