Jimbo Mathus is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work with the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Following a central tenet of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” that encourages a balance of rational and romantic impulses, Mathus spurned a scholarship to the U.S. Naval Academy to pursue his own path. That journey has taken him many unexpected places, but none more important than his self-discovery of the artist Jimbo Mathus.
“I guess my whole thing has been like some sort of serendipitous, a fool following his folly,” he says. “It's not like I calculated anything, you know?”