The Ghosts of Johnson City

Based in Maine with musical roots in Appalachia and the Deep South, The Ghosts of Johnson City present simple and soulful versions of old mountain music, Civil War songs, coal-mining melodies, disaster chronicles, haunting murder ballads and tunes of love and loss in times of poverty. With the debut album Am I Born to Die?, the group seeks to take listeners on a musical journey to some of the darkest hollows of America's greatest historical calamities and personal tragedies, from the battlefields of the Civil War and deepest Kentucky coal mines to the whaling grounds of the North Atlantic. Original storytelling music drawing from Civil War songs, coal-mining melodies, tunes of love and loss and haunting murder ballads from the American South.