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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 backgr...

Lucky 13 Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird have a new album, 'These 13,' with a beautiful folky sound Liza Lentini | March 5, 2021 - 10:00 am Share this article: CREDIT: Reuben Cox 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 will endure until the end of time. Co-written and performed exclusively by the two of them, their new record, These 13, is undoubtedly American folk, an homage to traditio...

Share this article: Cleveland’s  Coventry Village, a neighborhood lined with vintage shops, restaurants and bars was once the hippest area in the city. Located in leafy Cleveland Heights on the city’s east side, the once-bustling area has been quiet since the pandemic hit. Few more so than one of the area’s few constants: independent music venue The Grog Shop. Nestled between a movie theater and coffee shop, The Grog Shop’s exterior makes you think you’re entering a restaurant or café, not one of the best concert venues in the Midwest. It can go toe-to-toe with such other regiona...

Williams says he wanted Trickster Carousel songs to have both depth and naughtiness. On the quintet’s new album, Snake Oil, available for purchase on the band's website, iTunes and Apple Music, Williams explores ideas he wrote about in The Trickster Brain. Take the upbeat foot-tapping swing cut “Cradle to the Grave,” a humorous song about death and evolution that sounds like Tom Waits sitting in with the Squirrel Nut Zippers. “Evolution never meant to make us happy,” Williams says. "Happiness is not something that evolution gives a shit about. It's just survival and getting your...

2020 Top Ten List Spotlight: 90.TEEN DJ Vega Lund Over the past weeks, we've been spotlighting our  KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2020. Check out the Top 90.3 Albums of 2020, as voted on by our listeners, and check out more top albums from KEXP DJs here.   artist