The Squirrel Nut Zippers in 2018: Top: Eddie Lehwald, Dave Boswell, Leslie Neilson, Tamara Nicolai, Henry Westmoreland, Neilson Bernard III. Bottom: Cella Blue, Jimbo ...

$20, $17/adv. The origin of Chapel Hill’s Squirrel Nut Zippers is a simple one, a story formed from a confluence of talent and incidence, of love and of mirth. It is, in short, not unlike the stories ...

“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 ...

Twenty years ago, the Squirrel Nut Zippers released their album “Hot.” The second effort from the North Carolina gypsy-jazz/vaudeville music combo wound up selling more than 1.3 million copies, ...

Of all the trends in contemporary music that have come and gone over the years, the swing boom of the mid-to-late 1990s remains one of the most memorable. Seemingly out of nowhere, the hot-jazz sounds ...

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 ...

Before him, we didn’t have our own music. "It was European music." That’s sort of what the Zippers have done since Mathis put the first version of the band together in North Carolina in the mid 1990s, ...

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 ...