Editing Mark Linkous (section)

=== Salt Chunk Mary ===
Following the breakup of Dancing Hoods, Linkous moved back to Virginia. There, before he started the [[Sparklehorse]] project, he had another band consisting of Frederick Mark Linkous, Matt Linkous, Chip Jones, and Steve Schick. Formed in late 1989 as The Johnson Family, it soon became Salt Chunk Mary—both names being characters in [[Jack Black (author)|Jack Black]]'s memoir ''[[You Can't Win (book)|You Can't Win]].'' Demos were circulated, but no official releases were made. By 1995, Mark Linkous formed the solo project Sparklehorse, taking a couple of Salt Chunk Mary songs with him, and Matt Linkous later formed The Rabbit with Melissa Moore.<ref>You can find the only existing album from this band [http://www.chromewaves.net/2010/11/mark-linkous-salt-chunk-mary-demos/ here].</ref>