Squirrel Flower is the stage name and recording project of Chicago-based artist Ella Williams. Her fourth album ‘Tomorrow’s Fire’ was recorded in Asheville, N.C. and released last October. Since then, ...

This past summer was an important one for me: The latest season of The Righteous Gemstones came out and a new Squirrel Flower album was announced. Those two interests became interconnected, albeit not ...

Ella Williams, the Massachusetts-born musician who makes music as Squirrel Flower, released her first EP, Early Winter Songs From Middle America, while attending Grinnell College in 2015, and she’s ...

As unlikely as it sounds, in the mid-’90s there was a swing music revival. Movies like Swing Kids and Swingers inspired a new generation to sign up for swing-dancing classes. Right in the middle of ...

The current incarnation of the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Jimbo Mathus is at far right). Credit: Photo by Jamie Harmon When the Houston Press last spoke with Jimbo Mathus, the singer/guitarist and head ...