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| Group Members: Tom Maxwell, Ken Mosher, Stacy Guess, Jim Mathus, Don Raleigh, Katharine Whalen, Andrew Bird, Je Widenhouse, Chris Phillips
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| Biography: The commercialization of alternative music in the '90s resulted in many strange one-hit wonders, but few were quite as unpredictable as the Squirrel Nut Zippers. During a time when hipsters were obsessed with swing music in its relation to Sinatra and Martin's Rat Pack, the Zippers were fascinated with ...Read full biography |
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Released: 1997 Label: Mammoth Records Critics' Rating:  Squirrel Nut Zippers' second album, Hot, was one of the most surprising success stories of 1997. Like the group's debut, The Inevitable, Hot is comprised entirely of good-natured, if slightly tongue-in-cheek, ...Read full review Released: 1995 Label: Mammoth Records Critics' Rating: The members of the band mostly just call it jazz, or "hot music," or, when they're feeling naughty, "race music" -- a term that dates back to the1920s and '30s, when major record labels released jump blues ...Read full review
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