A way worlds
It’s mating season for snakes in the woods in Arkansas, where All Them Witches’ singer/bassist Charles Michael Parks Jr lives in a rundown cabin. Four or five venomous breeds lurk in the undergrowth and creeks of this untamed pocket of the American south. Mosquitoes are large and merciless, especially in the heat of August. There is no TV, cell-phone service or internet.
Parks lives out here alone, except for a cat, which hunts the rats and brown recluse spiders that creep inside from time to time. He hunts and fishes when he needs to, and when we talk he’s just been drying food for the winter. He’s also nursing a lot of industrial-strength bites, but is otherwise in good spirits.
“I’m a country boy by design,”.
