Squirrel Nut Zippers leader Jimbo Mathus calls as he’s driving through Tupelo, Mississippi. “The whole region here is quite historic,” he says. Tupelo is, of course, where Elvis Presley was, born and ...
The Squirrel Nut Zippers in 2018: Top: Eddie Lehwald, Dave Boswell, Leslie Neilson, Tamara Nicolai, Henry Westmoreland, Neilson Bernard III. Bottom: Cella Blue, Jimbo ...
Early in his career, Andrew Bird performed with the popular swing revivalist group Squirrel Nut Zippers. After contributing to a trio of their records between 1996 and 1998, Bird’s final appearance ...
Before he became a mainstay of the tasteful, NPR-friendly indie firmament, the whistling, violin-wielding chamber-pop king Andrew Bird was a member of the quirky ’90s swing revival band Squirrel Nut ...
One of the most commercially successful bands to ever spring out of the Triangle is Squirrel Nut Zippers, whose 1996 LP Hot sold more than a million copies. One of the group’s not-so-secret weapons ...
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 ...