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Beasts Of Burgundy, 2018
Written by Jimbo Mathus
This isn't the Squirrel Nut Zippers that I was an ardent, devoted fan of back in the '90s. On their previous album, 18 years earlier, only Jimbo Mathus and Katharine Whalen remained of the main creative force. Now, only Mathus and the drummer are left of the original band, and he's replaced the towering talents Andrew Bird and Tom Maxwell with fiddler Dr. Sick and '30s-style burlesque singer Cella Blue. The muted horns, piano, and singing style (the vocals track deliberately scratchy to feign age) on this track all evoke Dixieland jazz. The lyrics are simple — the title pretty much covers them — and the production is less slick than the original band's, but it's a fine tribute to those old weird New Orleans blues.
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