The new album by Grammy Winners Dan Zanes and Friends in a return to the age-desegragated mixed musical bag approach that has earned Zanes his place at the forefront of the family music genre. Recorded at Zanes' new homespun studio at Festival Five Records in Brooklyn, where friends and guests could visit to hang around to collaborate. The album features the multi-talented singer/violinist/whistler Andrew Bird on the original song “I Don't Need Sunny Skies”; funk/soul singer Sharon Jones brought her powerful voice to play in a duet with Zanes on the Etta James and Sugar Pie DeSanto R&B classic “Down in the Basement”; West African group the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars came out to Brooklyn for a jam on the album’s title track, a cover of the Melodians’ “Little Nut Tree”; and Zanes’ long time friend Joan Osborne added her Kentucky voice to another original “Everybody’s Going to be Happy.”  Zanes also traveled to downtown L.A. to record with the scrappy and soulful youth orchestra of the nonprofit organization The Harmony Project with whom he performed during the winter of 2010. Additional performances come from Zanes’ band present and past.

LITTLE NUT TREE TRACKLISTING:

1. In the Basement

2. Jim along Josie

3. Summer Trains

4. Wake Up Baby!

5. John Kanakanaka

6. Little Nut Tree

7. I Don't Need Sunny Skies

8. Saro Jane

9. La Siren

10. Everybody's Going to be Happy

11. The Farmer is the One

12. Thank You

13. Hill and Gully Rider

14. Red Tail Hawk

15. Salaam

16. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere