1) For a couple of years now, Folklore has been kicking around Athens (and some other places, with a few brief tours, mostly with their friends Summer Hymns), steadily building positive word-of-mouth. It might surprise you to learn that in such a short time they’ve already released two albums in limited pressings and various incarnations. Essentially the first two Folklore albums are flip sides of the whole, telling the same story, although stylistically they’re drastically different. Together, they present a band that’s quickly emerging as one of the top bands to emerge from Athens in recent years. The first, The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman, was peddled at shows for a while before finally getting an official release earlier this year on Athens’ Bumblebear Records. Co-credited to singer/songwriter Jimmy Hughes (also a guitarist for Elf Power) and, er, folklore researcher James P. Hughes, Jr., the album initiates listeners to the conflicting strands of information regarding H.W. Beaverman, supposedly a phantom haunting Lake Bonaparte in northern New York state. As the folklorist Hughes states in the liner notes, “It was a late summer night when the legend was presented to me by one bewildered young boy who swore he had seen H.W. Beaverman’s ghost cross the bay, just as his older brother and a friend were playing with a handmade Ouija board down by the water… So I became obsessed with this character, and each person I met had a new take on the legend, or the man, as I started to qu