Andrew Bird Reunites With Squirrel Nut Zippers Jimbo Mathus for New Joint Album
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Having reunited with his former bandmate to work on These 13 together, the folk rocker praises his collaborator for representing his own branch of the American musical tree. Jan 13, 2021
Squirrel Nut Zippers bandmate for a new joint album.
The singer worked with
Jimbo Mathus in the swing and jazz ensemble back in the late 1990s and they reconnected last year, when Bird joined the group on its song Train on Fire .
Now the two musicians are heading back into the recording studio together to work on a full-length project, titled These 13 , which will be released in March (21). In the meantime, they ve given fans a taste of what to expect by sharing their first single, Sweet Oblivion .
The two are close friends, and have developed an intensely creative approach to collaboration.
New album These 13 is out in March, and it follows Andrew Bird s Grammy nominated solo LP My Finest Work Yet .
Andrew comments. Up until meeting Jimbo, all my musical heroes were dead. Jimbo was anything but and just oozed musicality of a kind I thought was extinct. Had I not met Jimbo, who knows, but I think my music would have gone on a much more cerebral, complex trajectory. He is an enigma, a walking contradiction: wild yet refined, worldly yet colloquial. He represents his own branch of the American musical tree.
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Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird Reunite For New Album ‘These 13’
Former Squirrel Nut Zippers collaborators Andrew Bird & Jimbo Mathus reunited for the first time in decades on These 13, a forthcoming album featuring lead single Sweet Oblivion.