Jazz news: Jimbo Mathus to Release "Blue Light," a Six-Song Ep on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess Records July 20. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: May 2, 2012 @ All About Jazz ...

Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus collaborated often in the 1990s as part of Squirrel Nut Zippers. However, the two musicians forged their own paths over the past few decades. The longtime friends ...

Jimbo Mathus has an important job to do and he has done it impeccably this far. Mathus restores music from America's past and brings it to America's present, offering it in an entertaining and ...

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.

Jimbo Mathus is probably best known — unfairly, at this point — as a founding member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, where he was a major contributor to that group’s ragtag take on hot jazz and swing.

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Life is good for Jimbo Mathus, which makes it a little easier for him to explore the tougher times in his music. The Mississippi singer and songwriter received a great deal of ...

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 ...

"Just remember," Jimbo Mathus once said between songs at a Houston show, "for every mile of highway there's two miles of ditch." This week, Mathus will visit from his Mississippi home with a new album ...