All Them Witches on their six-year hiatus, raw blues sound, and disdain for overproduced music
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Fraser Lewry
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An in-depth interview with All Them Witches frontman Charles Michael Parks Jr. and guitarist Ben McLeod, discussing their six-year hiatus since their last album Nothing As The Ideal, their new musical direction, and their raw, unpolished approach to blues-rock. Parks shares his disdain for overproduced "white-boy blues bands" with squeaky clean mixes, and reflects on personal changes, life in rural Arkansas, and the band's evolution.
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· 3 pulledIf I hear a white-boy blues band now where it's a squeaky clean mix, I just want to vomit.
It's six years since All Them Witches released their last album, Nothing As The Ideal. That's six years of massive changes on the world stage, from presidents to pandemics, dubious wars to heroic Moon explorations.
For the band, on a personal level it's been all change, too.
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