Squirrel Nut Zippers, formed in 1993, is an American swing and jazz band known for blending vintage American musical styles. Their latest album, “Fat City,” features 23 tracks inspired by Jimbo Mathus’s grandfather and the cultural history of New Orleans. The band experienced significant success during the 1990s swing revival.
Duwayne Burnside’s album “Red Rooster,” featuring Cody and Luther Dickinson and Jimbo Mathus, reflects his deep Mississippi blues roots and musical evolution. The collection maintains the essence of Hill Country influences while integrating modern sounds. Burnside pays homage to his musical heritage and showcases a vibrant blend of traditional and contemporary blues.
Jimbo Mathus Incinerator JImbo Mathus has a new album, out April 5, that, like everything he does, is surprising in the best sort of way. It is called Incinerator and except for the overdubs it was recorded in 2 days at Dial Back studio in Water Valley, Mississippi. In order to fully concentrate on the […]
With Jimbo Mathus, you never know what you are going to get except that it will be brilliant. This one, over all, is more rock-oriented, beginning with the raw “Gringo Man,” to the country rock of “Can’t Get Much Higher” and the sexy, sultry “Play With Fire.” “Stop Your Crying” slows things down and employs […]
Jimbo Mathus is such fun to see in concert. He is a skinny guy and he and the TriState Coalition have a very down-home look. In concert, at least in Duluth, he skews considerably more straight country than he does on most of his CDs (with the exception of 2008’s Jimmy The Kid. His laid […]
Jimbo Mathus is almost impossible to categorize. This Mississippi native’s music is a combination of all sorts of Southern styles from gospel to blues to country to rock, fueled with mysticism and given a psychodelic twist. Add Mathus’s growling vocal and masterful storytelling and you have something strange and wonderful. You feel at times as though […]
Jimbo Mathus has spent a lifetime becoming a great Southern rock singer. Whether it’s country rock or blues rock he’s worth listening to again and again. Sometimes in life you run across an artist who really connects with you on a very satisfying and edifying level. In my life those artists have included Jimmy Buffet, […]
Jimbo Mathus, founder of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and member of the North Mississippi Allstars, has strong Southern roots and combines blues, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues to create great Southern rock in Dark Night of the Soul. These 12 original songs combine excellent songwriting with earnest and inspired vocal and musical performances […]