Jimbo Mathus, singer-songwriter of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, will perform the entirety of his 2005 album “Knockdown South” at the White Water Tavern on Friday, March 14. Credit: Jimbo Mathus Among ...

The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 2 is replete with the same instinctual camaraderie and musicianly savvy as its predecessor. Likewise culled from sessions recorded in 2007, this sequel ...

Jimbo Mathus ponders a haircut in Mississippi in his KISS "Destroyer" T-shirt. Credit: Photo by John Driver/Courtesy of Conqueroo “It’s probably my most interesting work to date. On a scale of 1 to 10 ...

Singer-songwriter Jimbo Mathus is the kind of guy who stops to read historical markers. Which is a good thing for Casey Jones, whose legend took a hit thanks to a popular Grateful Dead song ...

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 ...

Jimbo Mathus takes time off from the Squirrel Nut Zippers to take a whack at Donald Trump. Courtesy Jimbo Mathus Jimbo Mathus doubts he’ll be hearing from Donald Trump any time soon, even though the ...

For those unfamiliar with James "Jimbo" Mathus' music, it would be surprising to learn that his new Knockdown Society album, "National Antiseptic," sounds completely unaffected by the popular music… ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X It’s been nearly a decade since veteran roots musician James “Jimbo” Mathus left North Carolina to ...

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 ...

For a while now, Mississippi musician Jimbo Mathus has referred to himself as “the Arkansas Son-in-Law.” The moniker always seemed to imply more than just his Arkie bride, however. The idea of a proud ...