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AB: Probably ‘Grind.’ I don’t know. I like a lot of the stuff off of Rick Ruhl
‘Delta VooDoo.’ I like bits and pieces of everything, but yeah, Every Mothers Nightmare
probably ‘Resurrect.’

JP: Rick, Is there a particular album you have a greater
fondness for out of your collection?

RR: For me, it’s probably...man, I would think ‘Delta VooDoo’
or ‘Backtraxx.’ ‘Backtraxx’ was when the first deal fell out and
the two original guys left. I was writing all these songs and
sending them all to this guy Geffen. They were a little bit
different; a little more southern. Those were the two biggest
spurts where we were writing better music.

JP: ‘Delta VooDoo’ was my favorite.

RR: That was our biggest writing spurt. That was at the bottom
of the barrel for me, though. I’d been through the record deal
and the drop, drug addiction, and the whole ball of wax. I had
my Corvette and I sold it to my guitar player to scrape up the
money to do ‘Delta VooDoo.’ The recording is what it is, but
the guitar playing and the song quality is phenomenal
because it’s from the heart.

JP: You re-released it in 2018, correct?

RR: Yeah. When I got with Bill Chavis from HighVol Music,
yes, he bought us the rights and told us we could remaster or
do whatever we wanted to with it.

JP: There was a documentary released recently about
Every Mothers Nightmare. For those who have not seen
it, what should they expect to see?

RR: Well, it’s not really a…I didn’t really, the whole band didn’t
really want to do an hour and a half documentary where you’re
watching us for an hour in the studio. That stuff is fun to watch
for a couple of minutes. You can see people noodling around
on their stuff all day long. When I talked with Bill, he said if we
can do a 30 or 45-minute time capsule of this band and this
record; a little bit of the recording, a little bit of how the
songwriting goes, and I was cool with it. This is by far my
favorite band. It took a long time to get to this place. When I
found Allan, we’re kinda on the same kinda rhythm. I don’t
know if you can understand that, but the things he plays are
embedded in my head forever. We’re really close and the way
this band gels, we’ve already got six or seven songs written
for a new record.