Jazz Articles

Jimbo Mathus: Knockdown South

by Charlie B. Dahan
March 25, 2005

Jimbo Mathus has an important job to do and he has done it impeccably this far. Mathus restores music from America's past and brings it to America's present, offering it in an entertaining and passionate palette to an audience that includes America's youth. You might remember his last endeavor, a traditional jazz revival band from the late 1990s called the Squirrel Nut Zippers. They went on to sell a few hundred thousand records and land on many, many charts. Perhaps ...