Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon has ten brand new tracks, a combination of newly penned Zippers songs, along with a few tunes from long gone times.
“This new album was inspired by all of the mysterious characters from the history of New Orleans jazz music,” commented band leader Jimbo Mathus.“It speaks to the hidden roots of where our aesthetic, interests and philosophy comes from. It pulls on the hidden thread.”
ANIMULE BALL
our first single from
”Lost Songs of Doc Souchon”
Our warm thanks to Fleischer Studios.
“Animule Ball” was originally recorded back in 1938 by Jelly Roll Morton. In keeping with that time period, we turned to Fleischer Studios (home of Betty Boop) to use some of their historic animations for a brand new video for this song.“When I first started the Zippers the Max Fleischer cartoons were a huge part of our inspiration. The look, the music, all of it. So to have their blessing to use some of these characters and create something new with it is thrilling to me.” - Jimbo Mathus
TRAIN ON FIRE
our second single from
“Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon”
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10 new studio recordings available on glorious compact disc(so you can hold it in your hands).
we also have some assorted tchotchkes related to the new album (if management can get the lead out).
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“Mariuch She Make a da Hootchie Ma Cooch”
Standing in the center of a vast circular piece of hand embroidered lace, a cosmic doily stitched by the creator, it is a solid knot at the center where I stand. As I look out the patterns become visible. The threads of American music are as intertwined and hand embroidered as the lace in my visions. The techniques, inspiration and poetry tangled exquisitely into the past.
The ancients believed music was integral to life, that this world, the planets actually vibrated to notes. Poets chimed in to create impressive lasting monuments to humanity. We are but notes in the great cosmos and our sound waves exist in space in perpetual vibration.
Songs are small portals to the great cosmic heebie jeebie, the superspirit. These songs… whether symphony or street songs, are solid and practical, useful like a hammer and chisel, a Cadillac car. An anathema to the ancients,
The Squirrel Nut Zippers sack and plunder the old, weird America then sail off to further distant lands. They use New Orleans as their hideout and base of operations. Jean-Lafitte-like theY hide in the lee side of barrier island, receiving goods and making dark back channel deals; hiding in cellars or in plain view.
Gaze into the tea leaves that are “Lost Songs of Doc Souchon” and see if you can discern your destiny.