Unexplained phenomena of all kinds can be attributed to magic. Music is among those marvels. When a group of unrelated individuals of different backgrounds gets together and locks into a sonic unity, there must be some sort of mysticism at work. That's the only way to properly explain it. The members of Nashville's All Them Witches would agree too. That energy even courses through their moniker, which unsurprisingly comes from Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece Rosemary's Baby.
"The name can be interpreted in many different ways," explains singer and bassist Michael Parks, Jr. "It could be a person's view on what the forces of good and evil are or even how we interact with each other as human beings. There's a little bit of witchcraft in everybody's life. Just waking up is pretty magical—you're alive another day. In terms of the music, we're so loose, and that's where the magic comes from. There's no controlling factor. We do exactly what comes naturally. We go in a room without any idea about what will happen, get in the groove, and it works. That's supernatural."
All Them Witches began conjuring up music together in 2012. Foregoing theater school to focus on songwriting, Parks traded New Mexico for Nashville at 19-years-old. The Shreveport, Louisiana native met drummer Robby Staebler while the two shared a shift at a "corporate hippie store". Robby showed Parks some music he and guitarist Ben McLeod had written, and it inspired the singer to jam—which he adds, "I usually never do. It made sense though".