It’s getting harder to figure out what to write about on my Friday blogs. I’ll think of something, check my archives, and realize I’ve covered the topic already. Today’s entry is #755, so I’ve had 754 previous ideas. Fortunately new band bands come out periodically, allowing me to address them, including this relatively new band from Nashville, Tennessee, All Them Witches. Their first album, Our Mother Electricity, came out in 2012.
Like many of these newer bands – I’d compare them closest
to King Buffalo (from Rochester, NY) and Elder (from Boston, MA) – they vary
the songs from mellow to heavy and back again, avoiding getting too monotonous,
and the singer/bassist, Charles Michael Parks, actually sings, which is a good
point. His Rickenbacker has the top horn
cut off, so we’ll see if this band gets big enough that Rickenbacker makes a
CMP signature model. I know they have an
Al Cisneros (Sleep & OM) model. The guitarist
is Ben McLeod and the drummer is Robby Staebler.
I was fortunate enough to catch them at the Rock’n’Roll
Hotel in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2019.
Setlist: Funeral for a Great
Drunken Bird; 3-5-7; Diamond; 1st vs. 2nd; Fishbelly 86
Onions; Workhorse; Charles William; When God Comes Back; Rob’s Dream; Alabaster;
Swallowed by the Sea; encore: Blood
& Sand/Milk and Endless Waters.
Their newest album, Nothing As The Ideal, was
recently released. I preordered it and
received the CD (I reserve vinyl for material released before 1988, as only such
material, originally recorded for analog reproduction, will make the transition
to premium vinyl). Excellent, similar to
the prior releases, though I fall short of being able to distinguish it, for
better or worse, from such albums. For
those of you with Spotify, those releases are available on that medium.
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