La Plume Noire: Squirrel Nut Zippers: Bedlam Ballroom with Bedlam Reprise. Yep, they're back. And by now you should have figured out that they're doing more than swing shtick. All original songs, this new album is full of energy and will make you dance around.
Squirel Nut Zippers: The Band:
Stuart Cole, Jim Mathus, Chris Phillips, Ken Mosher, Je Widenhouse, Tom Maxwell, and Katharine Whalen.
"When this band started it was just to get Katharine involved in a musical... lifestyle, I guess," Jimbo says. I ask him what he would have done if she hadn't been musically inclined. He hadn't considered it. "I sort of had her on the six-week crash course, How To Have Been A Musician All Your Life." Jimbo had in his possession a kind of family-heirloom banjo, and it so happened that Katharine had always admired the jazz banjo ...
Squirrel Nut Zippers: Profile from CanEHdian includes biography, reviews, poll, audio, links and message board.
Named after a peanut-butter dessert made in Massachusetts, Squirrel Nut Zippers came together in 1993. Jim Mathus and Katherine Whalen began their guitar playing and singing in a renovated farmhouse as newlyweds hosting jam sessions with a number of talented friends. Best described as a mix of swing, jazz, rock and roll, and “30’s punk" the Squirrel Nut Zippers provide a unique blend that is hard to match in modern music ...
Includes biography, audio, message board, links and reviews.
Swinging Cici's Squirrel Nut Zippers Page:
On December 9, 2000 I went to see the Squirrel Nut Zippers play, live at the Roxy Theatre in Atlanta! I had so much fun! My friend Erin and I got there early so we could be front row center, and we were! The band entered by playing a jazzy tune and dancing and marching all around the theatre. It was so personal and exciting it got the entire audience psyched. My heart was racing ...
A fan page with biography, pictures, lyrics, song clips, and links.