Monday, March 5, 2018 at 8 PM то 10 PM
Rio Theatre
1205 Soquel Ave,
Santa Cruz, California 95062
Squirrel Nut Zippers at Rio Theatre
A brand-new video for the title track from our
forthcoming album "Beasts Of Burgundy."
In modern American music, running counterpoint to
overproduced pop there often has been something raw and original to upstage the
musical centers of New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. In 1993 a band named
after an obscure early 20th century candy took its quirky mix of jazz, blues,
klezmer and punk music and not only shattered the conventions of the time, but
achieved commercial success.
Founded in North Carolina by Jimbo Mathus and Chris
Phillips, the Squirrel Nut Zippers produced its watershed album, “Hot,” and
would go on to sell more than three million albums between 1995-2000.
Then the band drifted apart, its members going on to
other lives and careers. Mathus, now 50, developed a solo career. Approached in
2016 about doing a reunion, Mathus decided that the Zippers should go beyond
that and “reanimate and revive,” he said. Their new sound is like the old
sound, but updated, with generational appeal to both original Zippers fans and
their children.
“It’s not copying anything. It’s an amalgamation of old
weird America,” Mathus said last Thursday in a phone interview. “Let’s make America
weird again.”
Still fronted by Mathus, the nine-piece band includes new
members, most of them out of New Orleans. Mathus has returned to his home town
just outside of Oxford, Mississippi on the edge of the delta. The band includes
an enlarged rhythm section and a three-piece horn section.
Cost: $35 - $40
