THE SHAGGS- 1975
THE SHAGGS- 2017
The Shaggs
were an American all-female rock and outsider music band formed in Fremont,
New Hampshire in 1968..
The Shaggs were formed by Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggin in 1968,
on the insistence of their father,
Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted the band's rise to stardom.
The band's only studio album, Philosophy of the World, was released in 1969.
The album failed to garner attention, though the band continued
to exist as a locally popular live act.
The Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after the death of Austin.
The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; the band was described in one Rolling Stone article as "sounding like lobotomized Trapp Family singers."
On February 17, 2017, The Shaggs announced a reunion show at the Solid Sound Festival
in June curated by Wilco.
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