album titled 12 Jealous Roses on Relativity Records, which received a number of positive reviews. The Replacements and The Del Fuegos were also vocal fans of the band after the release of their first record. In 1988, Dancing Hoods put out their second album, Hallelujah Anyway, on Combat Records. A single from the album, "Baby's Got Rockets", was a modest college radio hit, and its video was picked up by MTV's 120 Minutes program. That same year, the group relocated to Los Angeles in hopes of achieving mainstream success, but broke up shortly after. Salt Chunk Mary Following the breakup of Dancing Hoods, Linkous moved back to Virginia. It was here, before Linkous started the Sparklehorse project, that he had another band consisting of Frederick Mark Linkous, Matt Linkous, Chip Jones, and Steve Schick. Formed in late 1989 as The Johnson Family, they soon became Salt Chunk Mary (with both names being after characters in the Jack Black memoir You Can't Win.) Demos were circulated, but no official releases were made. By 1995 Mark Linkous would go on to form solo-project Sparklehorse, taking a couple of Salt Chunk Mary songs with him, and Matt Linkous would later go on to form The Rabbit with Melissa Moore. Sparklehorse Following the breakup of Dancing Hoods, Linkous moved back to Virginia, where he continued writing songs. One of the tracks that he wrote during this period with David Lowery, "Sick of Goodbyes", was recorded by Cracker and appeared on their 1993 album Kerosene Hat. While in Virginia, he performed concerts under the monikers The Johnson Family (with members of Richmond punk legends Honor Role) and Salt Chunk Mary. Linkous finally settled on the band name Sparklehorse, and released Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot on Capitol Records in 1995. He remained the only consistent member throughout the band's existence. In 1996, while supporting Radiohead on the first Sparklehorse tour, Linkous overdosed on alcohol, Valium and antidepressants and possibly other substances in his London hotel room. Rendered unconscious by the combination of drugs, he collapsed with his legs pinned beneath him, and remained in that position for almost fourteen hours. He was treated at St Mary's Hospital, London. Subsequent surgeries saved both legs, but he required the use of a wheelchair for six months. His legs never fully regained their original strength. 1998 saw the release of Good Morning Spider; some of the album's songs dealt with Linkous' accident