The Shaggs

The Shaggs if you haven't heard of them are an all female rock band from New Hampshire. Not only are they an all female band they are also sisters. But there is a bit more to them than just that; they are such a bad band they are wonderful! A-rhythmic, discordant and tuneless are apt descriptions of the Shaggs.
Formed in 1968 in Fremont, New Hampshire The Shaggs were sisters Dot, Betty, Helen and Rachel Wiggin. The band was formed by their father because a palm reader had told his mother he would have daughters who form a popular music group. It was because of his insistence the sisters started playing. It was their father who also got them a regular Saturday night gig playing in the town hall of their home town. He also booked a recording studio and produced their first record "Philosophy of the World".
Described by the Rolling Stone columnist Debra Rae Cohen as sound like "Lobotomized Trapp family singers" and by Chris Connelly "without exaggeration it may stand as the worst album ever recorded". Conversely The Shaggs were also loved as outsider musicians by the likes of Frank Zappa and NRBQ and have influenced others like Kimba Dawson.
The Shaggs disbanded after the death of their father in 1975. It was in the 1990's when they were rediscovered and promoted by NRBQ who gave them their first and only gig outside of New Hampshire.