He’s talking about the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Chapel Hill—specifically the rich alt-nineties ferment that produced nationally charting acts such as Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, and the Zippers, as well as ...
The Squirrel Nut Zippers in 2018: Top: Eddie Lehwald, Dave Boswell, Leslie Neilson, Tamara Nicolai, Henry Westmoreland, Neilson Bernard III. Bottom: Cella Blue, Jimbo ...
Saturday marked a big anniversary for a former local institution: on June 4, 1996, Chapel Hill’s Squirrel Nut Zippers released Hot, the record that would propel them toward stardom with “Hell.” In ...
Originally released way back in the summer of 1996, Squirrel Nut Zippers’ second album, Hot, defied all expectations. At the time, pop fodder from acts such as the Spice Girls ruled the airwaves. What ...
“I’d have to be the guitar player,” she says, “and I don’t really have any of that material worked up. I don’t believe we’ll get into any of that stuff, but I don’t know, maybe we will. It doesn’t ...
The current incarnation of the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Jimbo Mathus is at far right). Credit: Photo by Jamie Harmon When the Houston Press last spoke with Jimbo Mathus, the singer/guitarist and head ...
Working hard is what Jimbo Mathus does. As a young boy he not only took part in his family’s music circles but also helped with his father’s business of raising hunting dogs and horses. After stints ...
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