On August 2 nd, Katharine Whalen will release her newest full-length album, “Madly Love”. He describes the sound as ".a true Southern amalgam of blues, white country, soul and rock-n-roll." ![]() ![]() He recorded Confederate Buddha, his latest solo album, with his current band The Tri-State Coalition, featuring solid talent cut from the same Delta cloth. 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. Think Delta highways, bowling-pin Budweisers and "innerplanetary honky-tonk" for the masses. ![]() 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. ![]() The late, great producer, raconteur, pianist, session man, artist and sage Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus "the singing voice of Huck Finn." Outside the South, Jimbo is likely best known as the ringleader of the hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers, or as the catalyst for Buddy Guy's breakthrough “ Sweet Tea” in 2001 and Guy's Grammy-winning Blues Singer album.
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