The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 2 is replete with the same instinctual camaraderie and musicianly savvy as its predecessor. Likewise culled from sessions recorded in 2007, this sequel ...

Andrew Bird and Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus have announced a new collaborative album. It’s called These 13 and it arrives March 5 (via Thirty Tigers). Below, find the first single, “Sweet ...

Andrew Bird and Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus have reunited to release a new song, “Sweet Oblivion” from their upcoming collaborative album, These 13, out March 5th via Thirty Tigers.

Squirrel Nut Zippers ringmaster Jimbo Mathus had hoped to join the rest of the band in New Orleans this year. Over the decades, he’s made a dozen or so albums in the city, including the Zippers’ 1996 ...

Jimbo Mathus, singer-songwriter of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, will perform the entirety of his 2005 album “Knockdown South” at the White Water Tavern on Friday, March 14. Credit: Jimbo Mathus Among ...

Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird have announced a new album, These 13, and shared a video for “Sweet Oblivion,” the lead single from the album. Both Mathus and Bird were in Squirrel Nut Zippers together ...

The current incarnation of the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Jimbo Mathus is at far right). Credit: Photo by Jamie Harmon When the Houston Press last spoke with Jimbo Mathus, the singer/guitarist and head ...

Over the past two decades, the roots-music adventures of Jimbo Mathus have shifted with the regularity and rapidity of a slide show. One night he might be gigging with a blues great like Buddy Guy or ...

As origin stories go, you’d be hard-pressed to invent one like this: Andrew Bird first met Jimbo Mathus in 1994 at a North Carolina folk festival, while Bird was working—and this is true—as a medieval ...

Of the band's recording, Mathus says, White Buffalo is a collaboration with our producer, 'Roscoe' Ambel, who brought a fierceness, a keen edge to our sound. I've never been prouder of any recording." ...

From the stewing cultural pot of Oxford, Mississippi, comes James H. Mathus Jr. Music fans knew him first as a member of swing revivalist band the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Now he’s Jimbo Mathus, leader ...

Only Mississippian Jimbo Mathus and Chicagoan Andrew Bird could compose an album so different from their platinum-selling Squirrel Nut Zippers’ roots, yet with the same sense of tender nostalgia that ...