Jimbo Mathus News

The Oxford-Ole Miss Rotary will hold a $10 benefit at the Powerhouse on Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. with Jimbo Mathus and Tri-State Coalition and Moon Pie Curtis playing.

Mississippi musician, veteran of Squrrel Nut Zippers and South Memphis String Band, will tour in May OXFORD, MS: The late Memphis producer Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus 'the singing voice of Huck Finn." Outside the South, Mathus is likely best known as the ringleader of the defunct hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers, or as the ... (more)

On the eve of the New Orleans Jazz Fest , local clubs kick into overdrive. At the Blue Nile, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore powers his avant-jazz and groove trio, which features Robert Walter on keyboards and Will Bernard on guitar.

Jimbo Mathus shed the relative swinging sophistication of North Carolina's Squirrel Nut Zippers and morphed into a more loose and free-wheeling Mississippi bluesman, in lifestyle if not adhering strictly to the musical genre.