About All Them Witches
All Them Witches is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Charles Michael Parks Jr., guitarist Ben McLeod, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Allan Van Cleave, and drummer Christian Powers.
All Them Witches formed on January 6, 2012. Drummer Robby Staebler, having lost all of his money, had recently sold many of his possessions and moved to Nashville from Portland, at which time he was living in his car. The intention of the move had been for Staebler to play in another person's band; however, he left the project upon finding the other party difficult to work with. Staebler had created a rough collection of eight tracks – on which he played all instruments – and, being "in love with the sound," was looking for musicians to turn that project into a band.
Staebler recruited guitarist Ben McLeod after seeing him playing slide guitar at a bar. The pair originally attempted creating jazz music, but abandoned this in favor of a heavier sound. This was followed several months later by Staebler meeting frontman and bassist Charles Michael Parks Jr. while they were both working for "a corporate hippie store." Parks was shown a collection of demo songs created by Staebler and McLeod, which persuaded him to join.
The band's name is taken from a book of witchcraft, All of Them Witches, featured in the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby.
The band self-released their first, self-titled four-track EP in the same year as their formation. They then became the first American band to be signed to the German heavy psych record label, Elektrohasch Schallplatten. Their debut album, Our Mother Electricity , was released on Elektrohasch with new mastering and new artwork in February 2013. Soon after came their second EP, Extra Pleasant, which was recorded with two microphones directly to a four-track cassette tape recorder.
In 2013, the band's second studio album, Lightning at the Door, was self-released via their own Bandcamp page; it was later marketed by Tone Tree Music. Their next self-released album was the official live album At The Garage in February 2015.
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