Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the Late Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson Are the New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers By Kevin Wildman The time is a little over 12 years ago and Squirrel Nut Zippers’ guitarist and vocalist Jimbo Mathus is sitting in a nondescript building in Coldwater, Mississiippi. The room he is in is about 400 square feet or more, maybe
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about 25 by 25 feet. The building looks like an old biker’s repair shop… nothing fancy… but definitely full of inspiration on this day. It’s somewhat out of the way in a rural section of Mississippi. Outside the building is a chain link fence with concertina wire along the top of
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it to fend off any unwelcome guests. Jimbo is sitting inside the Zebra Ranch Recording Studio. Over in one corner is the late Jim Dickinson, sitting at his cherry red baby grand Baldwin piano that Baldwin had given him, which he was so proud of. North Mississippi
