A b& was founded by Jim Mathus, erstwhile of Metalflake Mother, and Katharine Whalen fallowing it moved from either Chapel Hill, North Carolina to the nearby town Efland. A rest of a b& close shortly fallowing, and the class action manufactured its survive debut inside Chapel Hill two or three months late. A band formed in a period of the swing music revival of the 1990s. Unlike such elastic when Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, who were influenced other per crisp large band style of the 1940s, Squirrel Nut Zippers follow a supplementary industrious, rough out sounds of the Twenties hot jazz.

When a band's 1st album, The Inevitable (1995), passed by relatively unnoticed, a band became quite easily-known in the South through their continuous touring. Their 2nd album, Hot (1997), caught the attention of the modern music scene, nevertheless, in the main on the weight of the album's right-known song, "Hell". Fallowing becoming the staple in such influential radio stations when Los Angeles's KROQ, the album quickly went gold.

Stacy Believe, horn streaming video player inside the band prior to it achieved national recognition, died in March 1999. Inside July 1999, singer-guitarist Tom Maxwell left a band.

Sustaining a band's profits come mixed reviews. Numerous critics disliked a band's periodically camp lyrics and claimed that it were mocking hot jazz, non paying tribute. Occasionally known as a band's style "sloppy" & "amateurish." Others, even so, labeled a band's music when "genuine homage" to a right of the era & lauded the industrious rhythms & pollyannaish music.

the band has performed within a sectiin on Sesame Street, where it is swimming inside the lounge when teasing Fat Blue.

Members
Jim (Jimbo) Mathus (vocals, guitar, trombone) Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo) Don Raleigh (bass) Ken Mosher (guitar, saxophone, vocals) Chris Phillips (percussion) Tom Maxwell (vocals, guitar, baritone saxophone, clarinet) Je WindenHouse (trumpet) Reese Gray (piano) (Honorary Member) Andrew Bird (violin)

Discography
Albums
A Inevitable (1995) Hot (1997) Sold Out (1997) Perennial Favorites (1998) Christmas Caravan (1998) Bedlam Dance palace (2000) A Right of Squirrel Nut Zip (2002)

Singles
Roast Perfect (1997) Hell (1999)