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Listening to Jimbo Matt, this is Andrew Bird's new album, These 13.

It's like taking a trip down south, a century ago.

It's new territory for Andrew Bird.

It classically trained multi-instrumentalist from the Chicago suburbs, who's been a successful

indie folk singer-songwriter and also recently acted on the fourth season of Farming.

But for Jimbo, as a Mississippi resident, some of the music can hit too close to home.

Surrounded by the ghosts and old battlefields of the Civil War, some songs he finds almost

too hard to see.

Jimbo and Andrew first met musically, playing for the Sproon that Zippers in the Mid-90s,

a key part of the swing revival of the time.

In 2018, Andrew and Jimbo got back together, exchanging voice memos and new song-likeness.

Over the course of two years, they reported their new album, The Old Fashion Week, singing

into a single microphone.

In this episode, Bruce had them talk to Jimbo and Andrew about the varying ways they came

to master their instruments, and now hanging out with Jimbo down south, freed Andrew from

the constraints of this formal train.

They also talk about how they managed to sneak a line about cell phones onto an album that

pulls its inspiration from 150 years ago.

This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age.

I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Bruce Hadlam with Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mattis.

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