Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition to play Old Rock House with special guest Powder Mill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Jan 3, 2011) – Jimbo Mathus will once again bring North Mississippi’s best catfish music to the Old Rock House on Friday, January 14th. Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition, with opening act Powder Mill, will take the stage beginning at 9P. Tickets are $10 and are available online through the Old Rock House website.
The late, great Memphis producer Jim Dickinson (Big Star, The Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones) called Mathus “the singing voice of Huck Finn.” Mathus was asked by the Dickinson family to participate in the recording of “Onward and Upward” just days after Jim’s death in 2009, the resulting CD garnering a 2011 Grammy nomination from The Recording Academy. Mathus was also Grammy-nominated this year for his work with Dickinson’s son, Luther, and Alvin Youngblood Hart on the South Memphis String Band debut CD, “Home Sweet Home.”
Outside the South, Mathus is best known as the mastermind and front man of the hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers. In Memphis, in his native Mississippi and throughout the South, however, Mathus is known as the songwriter of born-in-the-bone Southern music, the torchbearer for Deep South mythology and culture. It’s Delta highways, bowling-pin Budweisers and “innerplanetary honky-tonk” for the masses. Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi AllStars, Black Crowes) proclaims Mathus as “a link in the ‘crazy Mississippi white-boy’ chain of music that goes all the way back through Elvis to Jimmie Rodgers...white musicians playing black music and influencing people of both cultures.”
Kicking off 2011 with a new record deal with Memphis International, Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition are a rising-star powerhouse that live music fans won’t want to miss. His backing band, The Tri-State Coalition, features solid talent cut from the same Delta cloth out of Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri, respectively. Mathus describes Tri-State as “a great Southern band that is versatile to the extreme. Our sound is a true Southern amalgam of blues, white country, soul and rock-n-roll. As Jim [Dickinson] would say, ‘If you don’t like this, there is seriously something wrong with you.’”
For more information on the band or for ticket information, check out the following—
JIMBO MATHUS & THE TRI-STATE COALITION
OLD ROCK HOUSE
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