Reposted by Peter Ward
"He sensed tension between the band members and Guzmán, and he noticed that the individual Sailors seemed to be scraping by."
An excerpt from the new @atavist.com issue by Peter Ward—about the dark secret of a ShantyTok folk band: longreads.com/2026/03/05/s...
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The Dark and Stormy Tale of a ShantyTok Band - Longreads
When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned that the band’s leader ruled with an iron fist.