Murkland

Jordan Green conjures the voices of his native Kentucky River locale: all the shook-up Saturday night wildness, the fire-and-brimstone warnings of preachers, the hard-scrabble 9-5 work voices, and the alien transmissions of the strangeness of Kentucky. The book reflects the upset of the widening of Hwy. 127 and the ghostly human history of junked autos. Green uses the rhythms of the gospel music, country music, and punk rock that he grew up on to achieve a basic distillation of local culture, an image movie and soundtrack to the rural upheaval of the Kentucky River Valley.

Jordan Green was born in 1975 in deepest Kentucky. He was raised on punk rock and skateboarding. Jordan has worked as an itinerant farmer, tree trimmer, telemarketer, housepainter, landscaper, political organizer, carpenter, convenience store clerk, journalist, and newspaper editor. He now makes his living as a full time hickey folk singer and is considering a career in truck driving.