The NightCat Cafe in Easton presents Jimbo Mathus of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, along with local favorites Anne Watts and Curt Heavey of Boister, for a rollicking evening of entertainment on Wednesday, July 13.
Outside the South, Jimbo is likely best known as the ringleader of the hyper-ragtime outfit or as the catalyst for Buddy Guy’s
breakthrough Sweet Tea in 2001 and Guy’s Grammy-winning Blues Singer album.
In his native Mississippi, and throughout the South, Mathus is recognized as the prolific songwriter of born-in-the-bone Southern music, the torchbearer for Deep South mythology and culture. Think Delta highways, bowling-pin Budweisers and “innerplanetary honky-tonk” for the masses.
His credits include vocals on the North Mississippi Allstars’ Electric Blue Watermelon and was, himself, Grammy-nominated for his participation on the Jim Dickinson memorial album, Onward and Upward as a member of Luther Dickinson & The Sons of Mudboy. He also joined forces with Luther and Alvin Youngblood Hart, forming the retro-roots “supergroup” South Memphis String Band whose Memphis International debut was Home Sweet Home.
The late, great producer, raconteur, pianist, session man, artist and sage Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus “the singing voice of Huck Finn.”
And of Anne Watts, Dickinson said, “Any artist that can reference Lotte Lenya, Edith Piaf, Captain Beefheart, and Thelonious Monk at the same time is okay with me. Dark, earthtone vocals; faded, sepia band tracks; with a splash of day-glo. She makes Tom Waits sound like a sissy.”
(Americana/Blues)
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
8 P.M., $15
NightCat Cafe
5 Goldsborough St.
Easton, MD 21601
Jimbo Matthus Video
Anne Watts & Boister
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