“Elijah Jones” is the first original song by the Ogden-based rock band Mothers of Mayhem. Even though the story in the song is fiction, the women said they know there’s a high probability that those characters existed in Utah history.
for the monthlong celebration is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories” — which fit in well with Mothers of Mayhem’s ideas for the song.
While writing “Elijah Jones,” the band called it a “murder ballad” — because it fit the mold of old country-western songs with themes of homicide. The four women have 19 children among them, which they say is where the “mayhem” in the band’s name comes from. Since they’re all full-time moms, Groom said, they’re limited in what they can do. The meet once or twice a week, depending on their schedules. They put the kids to bed, and practice until they can’t stay awake anymore.
That attitude also helps the bandmates balance their lives with the career expectations the music industry sets on bands.
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