#Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus Announce New Album These 13, Share New Song “Sweet Oblivion”: Listen

Andrew Bird and Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus have announced a new collaborative album. It’s called These 13 and it arrives March 5 (via Thirty Tigers). Below, find the first single, “Sweet Oblivion.”

Bird and Mathus were bandmates in Squirrel Nut Zippers in the late ’90s; the last time Bird was on one of the band’s albums was 2000, with Bedlam Ballroom. But, last year, he linked back up with the band, cropping up on the song “Train on Fire.” Bird’s most recent solo LP, My Finest Work Yet, arrived in 2019.

“Up until meeting Jimbo, all my musical heroes were dead,” Andrew Bird said in a statement. “Jimbo was anything but and just oozed musicality of a kind I thought was extinct. Had I not met Jimbo, who knows, but I think my music would have gone on a much more cerebral, complex trajectory. He is an enigma, a walking contradiction: wild yet refined, worldly yet colloquial. He represents his own branch of the American musical tree. It’s been my dream for years now to make this record with Jimbo. Just guitar, fiddle and our very different voices. I wanted to make sure you can really hear him as if for the first time.”

These 13:

01 Poor Lost Souls
02 Sweet Oblivion
03 Encircle My Love
04 Beat Still My Heart
05 Red Velvet Rope
06 High John
07 Stonewall (1863)
08 Bright Sunny South
09 Bell Witch
10 Dig Up the Hatchet
11 Jack O’ Diamonds
12 Burn the Honky Tonk
13 Three White Horses and a Golden Chain