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Bedlam Ballroom (Limited) (CD)

By: Squirrel Nut Zippers (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Bedlam Ballroom (Limited) (CD) Album By Squirrel Nut Zippers (Artist)
1   Bedbugs
2   Baby Wants A Diamond Ring
3   Do What?
4   Bent Out Of Shape
5   Stop Drop And Roll
6   Hush
7   It All Depends
8   Bedlam Ballroom
9   Just This Side Of Blue
10   Don't Fix It
11   Missing Link
12   Bedlam Reprise
13   Do It This A Way
 

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Review

JazzTimes (11/00, pp.80-2) - "...The most raucous bash of [all their albums]....Katherine Whalen's campy new blend of innocence and experience turns out to be the perfect sweet-n-sour mixer for Jim Mathus' amped-up whiskey howl..."

Title Note

Squirrel Nut Zippers: Jimbo Mathus (vocals, gutiar, banjo, ukelele, electric bass); Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo, baritone ukelele); Tim Smith (flute, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, background vocals); Je Widenhouse (trumpet); David Wright (trombone, piano, Wurlitzer piano, background vocals); Reese Gray (piano, Hammond B3 organ); Stuart Cole (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Chris Phillips (drums, percussion, gong, sound effects).

Additional personnel: Mike Napolitano (guitar); Andrew Bird (violin, strings); George Rossi (piano); John Pfiffner (tack bass); Gabo Tomasini (congas); Guistino Riccio (timbales); Greg Humphreys (background vocals).

Producers: Mike Napolitano, Squirrel Nut Zippers, John Plymale.

Recorded at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana; Fidelitorium Recordings, Kernersville, North Carolina; Overdub Lane, Durham North Carolina; Brooklyn Bridge, Austin, Texas.

BEDLAM BALLROOM was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

This limited edition of BEDLAM BALLROOM is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks as well as multimedia computer files. It is packaged in a digipak.

Squirrel Nut Zippers: Jimbo Mathus (vocals, guitar, banjo, ukelele, electric bass); Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo, baritone ukelele); Tim Smith (flute, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, background vocals); Je Widenhouse (trumpet); David Wright (trombone, piano, Wurlitzer piano, background vocals); Reese Gray (piano, Hammond B3 organ); Stuart Cole (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Chris Phillips (drums, percussion, gong, sound effects).

Additional personnel: Mike Napolitano (guitar); Andrew Bird (violin, strings); George Rossi (piano); John Pfiffner (tack bass); Gabo Tomasini (congas); Guistino Riccio (timbales); Greg Humphreys (background vocals).

Producers: Mike Napolitano, Squirrel Nut Zippers, John Plymale.

Recorded at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana; Fidelitorium Recordings, Kernersville, North Carolina; Overdub Lane, Durham North Carolina; Brooklyn Bridge, Austin, Texas.

BEDLAM BALLROOM was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

America's most eclectic and (mostly) unironically rootsy band returns with a set that is, as usual, all over the stylistic map. The Zippers' basic approach is a so-weird-it-works melange of New Orleans R&B, big band swing, 1930s and '40s torch balladry, and whatever else strikes their fancy.

Here, the opening "Bedbugs" is sort of mutated salsa; "Do What" is straight Memphis '60s soul; and "Baby Wants a Diamond Ring" is the sort of bluesy good-time stuff Maria Muldaur used to specialize in. Vocalist Katharine Whalen also turns in a pretty authentic Billie Holiday imitation on "Bent Out of Shape." Best of all is the title tune, a demented sort-of jazz instrumental that deliberately recalls the soundtracks from early '30s Fleischer Brothers cartoon shorts.

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