Mother of All Saints explained

Mother of All Saints
Type:	Album
Artist:	Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Cover:	Mother Of All Saints tful282.jpg
Released:	1992
Recorded:	Lowdown Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre:	Noise rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Length:	69:40
Label:	Matador
Producer:	Greg Freeman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Prev Title:	Lovelyville
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Where's Officer Tuba
Next Year:	1993

Mother of All Saints is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.^{[1] [2]} It was released in 1992 through Matador Records.^[3] The band supported the album by playing shows with Bailter Space.^[4]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a sprawling, 23-song, 70-minute heap of fragmented melodies, noise and roundabout backwoods ruralism." The Gainesville Sun praised the "staggering epic weirdness."^[5]

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

• Mark Davies – guitar, bass guitar, banjo, percussion, French horn, organ, vocals
• Anne Eickelberg – bass guitar, percussion, vocals
• Brian Hageman – guitar, erhu, viola, mandolin, tape, percussion, vocals
• Jay Paget – drums, vocals
• Hugh Swarts – guitar, piano, percussion, vocals

Production and additional personnel

• Paul Bergmann – drums on "Tight Little Thing"
• Gail Butensky – photography
• Kim Campisano – photography
• John Frentress – harmonica on "1" Tall"
• Greg Freeman – production, engineering
• Bren't Lewiis – tape on "Tell Me"
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production

Notes and References

1. News: With a great cranky clatter, the avant-garde rock band... . Arizona Daily Star . 20 Nov 1992 . 26F.
2. Reynolds . Simon . Mother of All Saints by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 . Melody Maker . Feb 6, 1993 . 69 . 6 . 33.
3. News: Powers . Ann . Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, from the nonconformist enclave of San Francisco... . The New York Times . 7 Nov 1992 . 1:13.
4. News: West . Phil . TIME FOR A CHALLENGE? STOP BY THE OFF RAMP . The Seattle Times . April 29, 1994 . D42.
5. News: Doherty . Jim . Iowa's Thinking Fellers return Wednesday . The Gainesville Sun . August 11, 1995.