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. When frontman Charles Michael Parks Jr (just Parks to those who know him) eventually joins Classic Rock and guitarist Ben McLeod on Zoom, he’s on the porch of his home in the wilds of rural Arkansas, “somewhere in the Ouachita mountains”, where he and his wife live an outdoorsy existence and their only friend is an elderly tractor driver.
But in 10 days’ time they’re moving to Nashville, where there’s bright lights, noise and people, traffic and good food. “Just to give it a shot for a while and get out of the woods for a minute,” he says.
