Squirrel Nut Zippers

It's ironic that much of the wrongly named swing boom follows "Hell," 1996's MTV-approved
hit by North Carolina's Squirrel Nut Zippers. To their credit, they're an eccentric band that
doesn't aspire to the sunny wisecracks of Swing This, Baby!; if anything, they crave the
high-stepping freedom of Louis Armstrong's hot jazz. On Perennial Favorites, the Zippers'
third album, they make the jump-blues rhythm only one component of a bunch... More >