On its website, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy often includes information about the history of the venues the band plays, especially if it’s a vintage theater it has played before.

That makes the band a perfect choice to headline the grand reopening festivities on Jan. 9 of the 97-year-old Robins Theatre in downtown Warren.

“How cool,” drummer Kurt Sodergren said during a telephone interview in Kalamazoo, Mich. “We love that kind of thing — the history, the vibe of the stage. Communities working to restore these places really have a love for them. For us to come out there and play music in them, it’s really a win-win.”

It’s fitting that the members of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have a love for old venues. Since it started 30 years ago, the band has been one of the leading proponents in introducing new generations of listeners to swing, jump blues and jazz.

Sodergren and frontman Scotty Morris have been there from the beginning, and most of the band members — Dirk Shumaker, bass; Andy Rowley, saxophone; Glen “The Kid” Marhevka, trumpet; Karl Hunter, clarinet and saxophone; Joshua Levy, piano; Alex Henderson, trombone; and Mitchell Cooper, trumpet — have been a Daddy for at least 25 years.

While the band’s sound was retro, most of the songs on those early albums were originals penned by Morris. In recent years, the band has delved into its influences, releasing a collection of Cab Calloway songs in 2009 and exploring the music of Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima and Louis Jordan on its 2017 release “Louie, Louie, Louie.”

The songs on those records have been in the band’s repertoire since the early days, when it was playing weddings and private parties and needed to fill three 45-minute sets per night.

“We didn’t have enough material, so we started playing music by people like Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong and Louis Prima,” Sodergren said. “That’s why we did that record, to show people where we came from.”

Sodergren admitted he never imagined BBVD would grow into what it became. He kept his day job for the first several years while playing with the band on nights and weekends. That changed shortly before the release of the movie “Swingers” in 1996. It wasn’t because of the movie. Sodergren didn’t know what to expect from the low-budget feature with a cast of unknowns (Vince Vaughn, Jon Favrreau, Heather Graham, Ron Livingston). They agreed to do it because they regularly played at the Brown Derby, and the movie was shot there.

Instead, the turning point was a conversation at that time with Morris.

“For me, I was just doing it for fun,” he said. “It was a blast. I remember asking Scott, ‘Do you think I’d ever be able to quit my job and just do this?’ and he didn’t hesitate. ‘Certainly, this is definitely going to take off.’ …. I never had to look back. I still remember that moment, us talking and his certainty about the future of it.”

Morris was right. “Swingers” was a critically acclaimed indie hit and help spark a nationwide swing revival. BBVD went from selling its self-funded debut album out of its van to signing a record deal with Interscope and making numerous television appearances, including performing with Stevie Wonder as part of the halftime show for the Super Bowl XXXIII.

The band will play its 3,000th gig later this month, and BBVD will start work on its next album this winter. Sodergren expects it to be a return to original material.

“The new record should be out by the end of the year. We’re super excited to come for the rebirth of your theater. It sounds like it’s going to be beautiful, and I can’t wait to come.”