Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird Bring out the Rustic Elements on ‘These 13’
Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird’s songs sound like they could have been recorded more than 100 years ago or just yesterday.
These 13
Wegawam Music Co. / Southern Broadcast
5 March 2021
Andrew Bird first got together with Jimbo Mathus when Bird joined Mathus’ swing jazz revival band, the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Mathus comes from a family of Mississippi music makers where his guitar playing connected him to his community. Bird is a classically trained violinist from the suburbs of Chicago. Despite their disparate backgrounds, the two felt a close affinity to each other. They formed a mutual admiration society, even though Bird later left the band to pursue his own visions. Both men are idiosyncratic players whose music takes them down different rabbit holes in search of a lost chord or something hidden just behind the notes that propel them onward.