The Shaggs were made up of three Wiggin sisters: Dot, Helen, and Betty. Coming from a large family in New Hampshire, the sisters found themselves playing music in the mid-‘60s at the behest of their father, Austin Wiggin. Moved by a premonition his mother had that her granddaughters would form a band, Austin took the girls out of school, bought them instruments, and insisted that they practice for hours daily. After a few years of daily rehearsal and weekly performances at local nursing homes and town hall dances, the group entered a Massachusetts recording studio for the single-day session that resulted in their 1969 debut album, Philosophy of the World. One thousand copies were pressed on local fly-by-night record label , third world and all but 100 of them quickly disappeared, along with the president of the company. The Shaggs added another sister, Rachel, on bass, to their ranks and continued playing locally. (copied from spotify bio)