I learned something new today- I had no idea that The Picketts were from Seattle (they were called “grange rock”- get it?) AND Scott Mcaughey was in the band. I had no idea- cool!

Here is the allmusic bio: The Picketts were Seattle’s only “grange rock” combo. Led by vocalist Christy McWilson, the band also included drummer “Blackie” Sleep, McWilson’s guitarist-husband Scott McCaughey, and rhythm guitarist Jim Sangster.
McWilson and McCaughey had met at San Francisco State. They moved to Seattle in 1980, where McWilson started a ’60s retro/new wave band called the Dynette Set, and McCaughey fell in with the ragged pop combo Young Fresh Fellows. Raised in Northern California, McWilson had grown up on the Bakersfield sound and the cosmic country of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. But Seattle was pretty much devoid of that sound, and what little did exist didn’t have the greatest reputation. Nevertheless, after McWilson noticed Sleep’s distinctive standup drumming style during a gig his rockabilly band played opening for the Dynette Set, she asked him about collaborating, and the earliest form of the Picketts was born.

This is toward the end of their run- Scott was busy with R.E.M. so that might have contributed. This no depression tour was legendary with Old 97s/Whiskeytown along with Picketts and Hazeldine.

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