It’s been over a year since Nashville-bred band All Them Witches announced the recording of their highly anticipated new album and today, we see the release of their first new single in over three years, ‘Red Rocking Chair’. The bluegrass staple is here reimagined as a ballad, sung gently over sparse instrumentation, before exploding into a momentous bass-heavy chorus which has left no barricade unshaken and no tears uncried since they’ve started adding it to their live setlist in 2025.
It also marks their first official release with drummer Christian Powers (also of Fortune Child, who we interviewed in 2024) and their first under the BMG label.
The song release pairs with a kaleidoscopic music video (filmed by Dylan Handley), featuring live shots from their 2025 European tour at the Bataclan, Paris, and O2 Forum Kentish Town, London.
I’ve actually been listening to ‘Red Rocking Chair’ since I was a kid. Usually, it’s done in a traditional bluegrass style. Ben had the riff, and it made me start singing those lyrics. We used to play bluegrass at after-show parties, in stairwells, and on the streets sometimes. So ‘Red Rocking Chair’ ties into our old time-y rough touring days.
– Charles Michael Parks, Jr
The band have always looked to traditional folk songs and imagery for inspiration, like ‘Blacksnake Blues’ and their ‘Coyote Woman’ trilogy, with the mournful love song RRC now joining their discography.
Hopefully, it retains some of our core stoner doom fans. I wrote the riff and the wiggly verse part with the intention that Parks would actually sing those ‘Red Rocking Chair’ lyrics over them. He didn’t know it at first, but he wasn’t going to be allowed to say, ‘No’.
– Ben McLeod
In the States, the lyrics of ‘Red Rocking Chair’ were often used in the intro of their similarly heavy stoner song ‘Swallowed by the Sea’, from their second album, Lightning at the Door.
Fans had always asked about it, and I thought it should finally be its own song.
– Ben McLeod
All Them Witches is Ben McLeod on lead guitar, Charles Michael Parks, Jr. on bass/vocals, Christian Powers on drums and Allan Van Cleave on keys and violin. More information over on https://www.allthemwitches.org.
A release date for their latest album is yet to be announced.