My Mother the War

Anyway, it's a very good LP.

The band are called 10,000 Maniacs, and, uh, this is My Mother the War.

[singing]

It's, it's the classic example of, you know, a band sort of struggling in their country, but they break, they break it in, in the UK.

And as soon as he let it be known that, you know, Secrets of the I Ching was his favorite, favorite album that year, and I think My Mother the War was his favorite track, he, uh...

You know, then, then the, the buzz started, and everybody, you know, all the record labels, you know, they pricked up their ears, so...

[singing]

well you know in electric records they were really good to us they were a great company for us we made the right choice and uh they were patient and you know they let us make some decisions especially with the wishing chair and the producer picking joe boyd and going to london Um, you know, and when that record didn't recoup, obviously they wanted to have a little more, uh, decision decisions being made, but, um, they, they were good, good to us.

So, um, When we sent the record to John Peel in England and My Mother the War became somewhat of a, like number 28 or 23 in his, the poll of the John Peel show on the BBC, that made record companies in the United States kind of interesting.

And there was, we play, so around Easter of 84, We're playing at Danceteria.

And, you know, this is, you know, Danceteria.