All Them Witches “Lightning At the Door”
All Them Witches “Lightning At the Door” 2013. Self-released, limited 500 copies. I caught All Them Witches this past Saturday night at Collectivo’s Back Room on Milwaukee’s east side. After openers King Buffalo (from Rochester, NY) played an amazing heavy-psych set, Nashville’s All Them Witches brought their even heavier stoner rock to the stage, swirling with a darkly layered psychedelic sound. I wish I could list their set but the hypnotic vibe (and my days and days of sleep deprivation) put me in a trance. (I joked the next day while describing the concert that All Them Witches shows are where old punks go to meditate.) They certainly could have played a few tracks from Lightning At the Door, their second full-length. My favorites are “When God Comes Back” which is excellently reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog,” the complex “Charles William” with its sliding blues guitar and ten-ton heavy beat and “The Death of Coyote Woman” which conjures up images of a desert at midnight populated only by cacti and fuzzed out guitars.
Daily (maybe) pulls from the vault: 33-1/3, 45, 78, old, older, classic, new, good, bad. Subjective. Autobiographical. Occasionally putting a record up for sale.