signed a six-record contract

While touring to support the new record, the band began to address the question of where to go after their two-record contract with Caroline Records was fulfilled. Billig had since left the label to manage bands at Gold Mountain Records , a company whose clients included Nirvana and Beastie Boys , and as Walt Mink’s new manager, she began the process of shopping them to major labels. By mid-summer of 1993, the band had decided that Columbia Records seemed to be the most enthusiastic, and so while on tour in Memphis, Tennessee , the three members signed a six-record contract under a statue of the great blues songwriter W.C. Handy .