''Roasted Right'' is the debut recording by the swing revival band
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers is an American swing and jazz band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Jimbo Mathus, James "Jimbo" Mathus (vocals and guitar), Tom Maxwell (singer), Tom Maxwell (vocals and guitar), ...
, first released as a 7" in 1994, and subsequently re-released with an additional track as an
EP in 1997.
Squirrel Nut-Zippers: Roasted Right EP
Discogs.org. Retrieved on August 10, 2020. Unlike later music by the Zippers, ''Roasted Right'' features a more blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
-based sound without brass or woodwinds.
Track listing
7" Vinyl 1994 (MRG057):
#"Little Mother-in-Law" (Whalen/Mathus) — 2:36
#"(You Are My) Radio" (Whalen/Mathus) — 2:08
#"Anything But Love" (Raleigh) — 2:45
CD 1997 EP (MRG 057 CD):
#"Little Mother-in-Law" (Whalen/Mathus) — 2:36
#"(You Are My) Radio" (Whalen/Mathus) — 2:08
#"Anything But Love" (Raleigh) — 2:45
#"Wash Jones" (Mathus) — 2:46
Personnel
* Jimbo Mathus
James H. Mathis Jr. (born August 1967), known as Jimbo Mathus, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and member of the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Early life and career
He was born in Oxford, Mississippi to Jimmy Mathis and ...
– guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals
* Katharine Whalen – banjo, ukulele, lead vocals
* John Kempannin – violin
* Don Raleigh – double bass
* Chris Phillips – contraption kit
* Ken Mosher – drums, vocals
References
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1997 EPs
Squirrel Nut Zippers albums