RALEIGH, NC - Katharine Whalen, former frontperson in the roaring nineties swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers, is planning her return to music following a short hiatus with her first solo album in seven ...

ASPEN ” Jimbo Mathus has been a key sideman for some legendary musicians. He was a guitarist and arranger for two of Buddy Guy’s finest CD: 2001’s “Sweet Tea” and 2004’s Grammy-winning “Blues Singer,” ...

The Squirrel Nut Zippers announced the return of their Christmas Caravan Tour, blending New Orleans jazz, vintage swing, and holiday classics across venues nationwide as part of their ongoing 30th ...

The members of the reunited Squirrel Nut Zippers figure an album of new material is inevitable, if not imminent. By Gary Graff, Billboard, The Associated Press DETROIT — The members of the reunited ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers leader Jimbo Mathus calls as he’s driving through Tupelo, Mississippi. “The whole region here is quite historic,” he says. Tupelo is, of course, where Elvis Presley was, born and ...

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 ...

Call it a revival of the swing revival. Two decades after the Squirrel Nut Zippers ’ breakout album “Hot” — which included the still-ubiquitous oddball single “Hell” and sparked the late-1990s swing ...

I don't think that the Easter holiday had anything to do with the persistence of my current earworm, although it has been running through my head on and off since the beginning of Lent. I'd like to ...

As unlikely as it sounds, in the mid-’90s there was a swing music revival. Movies like Swing Kids and Swingers inspired a new generation to sign up for swing-dancing classes. Right in the middle of ...

There was a time, 20 years ago, when a big band/swing revival seemed to be everywhere at once, and the band I talked to one of the band’s founder, Jimbo Mathus, last week about the band’s new lineup, ...

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, ...