Henry David Thoreau is as much a guiding influence as Pink Floyd. “When we returned the van with a side mirror broken off, the rental place was cool. At one point I was driving in reverse in the middle of Paris. Then we switched lanes in other European countries. It’s hard enough to drive a British vehicle on British roads. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says a laughing Van Cleave, who did most of the driving. The band did their own driving in Europe – and only lost one side mirror. When did you first meet Satan?’ And I said: ‘Um… I think you’ve got us wrong.’ He thought we were devil worshippers.” “Finally, his turn came, and he said, in total seriousness: ‘Hi. “In Germany there was this super-tall, intense-looking guy waiting patiently to meet us after a show,” Parks says. And in the same way that Black Sabbath attracted lunatic-fringe dwellers, All Them Witches occasionally find themselves meeting occult-ish fans. The name was inspired by a book in the 1968 horror/thriller film Rosemary’s Baby. I think there was definitely an influence from those seventies-era Little Feat and Paul Simon records I grew up on.”ĭespite the band’s name, don’t expect pentagrams, bloody sacrifices and the like. “We gave them freedom to create their parts, and they were amazing. “I’ve been fans of their music for so long, it was an easy choice,” Parks says. “And we wanted girl singers.”įor their funky ‘witches’, they tapped three top Nashville songstresses – Caitlin Rose, Erin Rae and Tristen. “We wanted a record you could crank,” says McLeod. Taking a cue from Macbeth, the band invited three “weird sisters” to be musical foils in the studio.
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