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Newport Folk Fest Marks the Glorious Return of Festivals in the US

Newport's "Folk On" weekend boasted legendary collaborations, surprise appearances, and other numerous firsts.

July 26, 2021

Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus, Brian Fallon, Squirrel Flower, More Come to Protect Live Music Archive

Also revisit performances from together PANGEA, The Ballroom Thieves, and Hounds.

May 26, 2021

Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus Share Origins of New Single "Encircle My Love": Stream

One last single before the folk duo releases These 13 later this week.

March 3, 2021

Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus Unveil New Song "Poor Lost Souls": Stream

The latest preview of their upcoming collaborative album These 13.

February 9, 2021

Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus Announce New Album These 13, Share "Sweet Oblivion": Stream

The former Squirrel Nut Zippers bandmates reunite for a new collaborative release.

January 12, 2021

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Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus Enlists Lilly Hiatt, Andrew Bird for New ‘Incinerator

By Jim Beaugez

Jim Beaugez

Jimbo Mathus says he never planned to make money playing music. That’s a good thing, because by the time the first lineup of his band Squirrel Nut Zippers folded, it was all gone.

The Zippers’ unlikely 1996 hit, “Hell,” a wildly horn-driven, Dixieland jazz romp, earned them a Platinum record for their album Hot . But to their dismay, they were mistakenly swept into the retro-swing fad popularized by the movie Swingers , stamping an unfortunate commercial expiration date on the band’s greasy, brassy brand of vintage Americana.

When the juju ran out — following the divorce of Mathus and bandmate Katharine Whalen, and a lawsuit over royalties from two former bandmates — Mathus retreated to his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi, broke and broken down, to regroup.

“I was just working in the clubs in the deep South, the catfish joints, wherever I could set up, basically,” Mathus tells Rolling Stone Country from New Orleans, where he splits his time with rural Taylor, Mississippi. “There was a time I didn’t have a band. I would just show up in town for a gig and ask the bartender, ‘Who plays drums around here?’”

Those days are over now, with both his solo career and Squirrel Nut Zippers back in high cotton, but his experiences on that journey and refusal to give up had a lasting impact on his music. Many of the songs on his new album, Incinerator (Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum), out April 5th, originated from that time of uncertainty, and deal with life and loss from different perspectives.

Incinerator has a compelling grandeur, trading the rocking blues of his recent solo albums for a reflective journey through tintype Americana. For the recording sessions at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi, with co-producers Matt Patton of Drive-By Truckers on bass and Bronson Tew on drums, Mathus stuck to piano and vocals, stepping away from the songs while his partners went to work.

Opening cut “You Are Like a Song” sweetly memorializes a lost friend with a sweeping eight-part harmony on the chorus, evoking an old Southern hymn and the sing-in-the-can era of acetate recordings. The album’s collaborative spirit went beyond his co-producers, too — former Zippers bandmate Andrew Bird wrote and played the string arrangement on “Really Hurt Someone.”

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“Sunken Road,” the album’s centerpiece duet with Lilly Hiatt, is “the bottom of the story, the end of the line,” Mathus says. Lyrics like “postcards from the lost highway” nod to Hank Williams, while the story itself draws its imagery from the mysterious, overgrown paths that cut through many Southern forests. Beaten down, weathered and disused, today many of these paths don’t seem to go anywhere, but rather appear and fade like apparitions in the kudzu.

“Over time they became footpaths, to horses, to wagons, and over time it pushes the road down in the ground … and makes these steep banks on either side,” he says. “A lot of the sunken roads are abandoned. You’ll see an old wrecked Ford over there, and the ruins of a house. I took that and made a metaphor for somebody that’s on his last drive, somebody that’s desperate on the road.”

Patton, who had gotten to know Hiatt when she opened for the Drive-By Truckers, had the idea of inviting her to mirror Mathus’s verses on “Sunken Road.” Her intimate and soulful singing provides a high-and-lonesome counterpoint to Mathus’s impassioned performance.

“The whole song resonated with me,” Hiatt says. “I know that feeling well. What I took from his lyrics was an emotion that I related to — loneliness, and just needing help along the way.”

The song is also a tribute to his late friend, songwriter Robert Earl Reed, who shared Mathus’s love of the northern Mississippi hill country’s rural folk-blues.

“That was [inspired by] me and him hanging out a lot, running the truck in the river, sittin’ at deer camp and just hanging out in the country,” Mathus says. “Riding around on all these roads in his pickup truck, talking, listening to music. It was an ode to him. I wish he could hear it, but that’s how it goes. He’s now a song, you know?”

As a companion to Incinerator , Fat Possum will also release The World According to Jimbo Mathus, a documentary by J.B. Lawrence that follows him from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama, and back to north Mississippi while telling the stories of his life and songs. The full documentary will be available April 5th.

Mathus has tour dates scheduled with the reactivated Squirrel Nut Zippers beginning April 12th, followed by solo-band shows in May with backing from Patton, Tew and others.

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With Squirrel Nut Zippers: April 11 — Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barnstormers April 12 — Minneapolis @ Dakota April 13 — Evanston, IL @ SPACE April 14 — Ferndale, MI @ Magic Bag April 16 — Warrendale, PA @ Jergel’s Rhythm Grille April 17 — Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt April 18 — Rockport, MA @ Rockport Music-Shalin Liu Performance Center April 19 — Portland, ME @ Aura April 20 —New York, NY @ City Winery April 21 — South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom April 23 — Boston, MA @ City Winery April 24 — Fairfield, CT @ StageOne at FTC April 25 —Ardmore, PA @ The Ardmore Music Hall April 26 — Reading, PA @ Miller Center for the Arts April 27 — Kent, OH @ Kent Theatre

Jimbo Mathus solo: May 2 — New Orleans @ Ogden Museum of Southern Art May 3 — New Orleans @ Hi Ho Lounge May 4 — Mobile, AL @ Listening Room May 17 — Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry May 18 — Memphis, TN @ Bar DKDC May 22 — Nashville, TN @ Acme Roots Radio May 31 —Little Rock, AR @ White Water Tavern June 1 — Tupelo, MS @ Blue Canoe June 8 — Jackson, MS @ Duling Hall

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REVIEW: Jimbo Mathus “Solo Blues Guitar: Jimbo Mathus Performs Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”

Jimbo Mathus’ new release on the Solo Sounds label, Solo Blues Guitar: Jimbo Mathus Performs Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, is both exactly what its title says, and yet infinitely more. Lucinda Williams fans will groove on the solo blues guitar interpretation of one of her best albums, which is an unbelievable 20 years old this year.

On his facebook page, Mathus says of the project that it’s “solo blues guitar with no vocals, no overdubs, in super hi res sound quality. These are really hard to do but very cool to listen to.” In this era of digital fantasia and the unlimited ability to alter and overdub, playing one solo instrument all alone for the microphone and recording equipment is an unusually challenging feat.

Audiophile aficionados of quality Americana music will thrive on this album, for two reasons.   First, the recording quality will immediately captivate your attention. The entire album, along with all of the offerings on this entire Solo Sounds label, are recorded at hi res 24bit/192kHz. Anyone remember the Neil Young controversy over the HD Pono players?   The one about whether recording at 24bit/192 kHz is economically feasible and whether there’s a “significant” difference in sound quality between standard digital recording and hi res? If you’re still on the fence about this one, I challenge you to listen to this and NOT hear the incredible difference from other MP3 and otherwise digital recordings. You can literally hear the rub of fingers on the strings.   To make an analogy, it’s like taking a picture of a bird on a faraway branch with a 400mm lens that lets in more of the light and surroundings; the focus on the resulting photo is absolutely sharper than anything you’d take with your phone’s tiny lens, even after you crop it smaller. Same concept applies with recording at this soundwidth, even after it’s made available on your standard site.

The other reason to love it is Mathus’ playing, itself. You might think of him as the super fun front man performer for the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and maybe that image overshadows the reality of his adroit and nimble guitar playing skills. But this album will put it all into focus for you. At times you’ll swear there are two people playing two instruments, and the rest of the time you’ll just marvel at the beautiful grace of his skills.

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Siegal and Mathus tour again

3-month run includes 15 UK dates

Ian Siegal and Jimbo Mathus will team up for a three-month European tour next year, they’ve announced.

It includes 15 UK dates, with appointments in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovenia yet to be announced.

The run follows their first road trip together in 2014, and the duo are gearing up to release a live album recorded on the journey.

Organisers say: “If your musical preference is a combination of rootsy blues and folk Americana, delivered with irreverent humour and nuggets of folklore, then look no further.

“This transatlantic duo of multi-award winners ticks all the boxes, combining the talents of Europe’s leading contemporary Bluesman with the Grammy-nominated songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Mississippi.”

Siegal was this week named Best Vocalist at the European Blues Awards for the third time.

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• Fri 3 Jun Whitstable, The Duke Of Cumberland Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Thu 2 Jun Aldershot, West End Centre Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 1 Jun Charlton Kings, Vonnies Blues Club Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Tue 31 May Wolverhampton, Robin 2 Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sun 29 May London, Green Note Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sat 28 May Sheffield, The Greystones Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 27 May Otley Courthouse Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Thu 26 May South Woodchester, The Convent Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 25 May Bristol, The Tunnels Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sun 22 May Newcastle upon Tyne, The Cluny Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sat 21 May Selby Town Hall Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 20 May Lowdham Village Hall Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Thu 19 May Leicester, The Musician Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 18 May Havant, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Tue 17 May Worthing Pier Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus

November 2014

• Sat 29 Nov Belfast, The Empire Bar & Music Hall Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 28 Nov → Sun 30 Nov Darvel Town Hall Darvel Winter Music Festival Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus, Ruben V, Kris Dollimore, Skerryvore…
• Thu 27 Nov Derby, The Flowerpot Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 26 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, The Cluny Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Tue 25 Nov Sheffield, The Greystones Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Mon 24 Nov London, Green Note Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 21 Nov Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 19 Nov Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Tue 18 Nov Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sat 15 Nov Whitstable, The Duke Of Cumberland Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 14 Nov Wrexham, Worthenbury Village Hall Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Thu 13 Nov Southampton, The Brook Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Wed 12 Nov London, Orange Yard Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Tue 11 Nov Worthing, Connaught Theatre Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Mon 10 Nov Edinburgh, The Voodoo Rooms Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus, Ryan Morcombe
• Sun 9 Nov Carlisle, Swallow Hilltop Hotel Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Sat 8 Nov Matlock Bath, The Fishpond Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 7 Nov Laycock, Bronte Blues Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus
• Fri 7 Nov → Sun 9 Nov Carlisle, The Venue The Carlisle Blues & Rock Festival Mike Zito, Climax Blues Band, The Boom Band, Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus…

October 2014

• Wed 15 Oct Whitstable, The Duke Of Cumberland Ian Siegal, Jimbo Mathus