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Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $13.98
Audio CD - 21 March, 2000
Sugarhill [Country]
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
Ode To A Butterfly
The Lighthouse's Tale
Out Of The Woods
In The House Of Tom Bombadil
Reasons Why
When You Come Back Down
Sweet Afton
Cuckoo's Nest
The Hand Song
Robin And Marian
The Fox
Pastures New
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| Audio CD Description San Diego is not exactly known as a hotbed of contemporary bluegrass music, but then again, Nickel Creek are a far cry from most bluegrass bands you've ever heard. On their Alison Krauss-produced debut, they serve up a lilting, ethereal fusion of bluegrass, Celtic, modern folk, and even classical influences, offering exquisite harmonies that would be more at home at a Crosby, Stills & Nash tribute than at a musical salute to the late Bill Monroe. Yet it makes for delightful listening, all the same. The three principals (Sara Watkins on fiddle and vocals; her brother Sean Watkins on guitar, mandolin, and vocals; and Chris Thile on mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, and vocals) are either barely out of their teens or still in them. Individually and as a band, they've already won a slew of awards and notoriety on their respective instruments. The three prodigies (joined by Thile's dad, Scott, on bass) really strut their eclectic hot licks on a few soaring, skittering instrumentals, but even more impressive are Nickel Creek's graceful, heartfelt harmonies on the many lovely ballads. Hot licks, when you get right down to it, are a dime a dozen; this sort of pluperfect tunefulness is a much rarer thing. |
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a little disappointed I had gotten the CD "Why Should the Fire Die" after hearing the song "When in Rome" on the radio and really enjoyed it. (I actually thought Glenn Philips had cut a new disk and called the radio station to find out who it was...) I picked this one up hoping it would be equally good. I was dissapointed. The music sounds like it is from a totally different band. Granted, this disk is growing on me - but it did not seem to be the same genre of music on the whole. There are some lovely arrangements, and the bluegrass picking is quite nice, as well as very good vocals - but not what I was expecting. If you dig Allison Krauss, or the Old in the Way type thing - you'll enjoy this. However - it is fairly mellow.
BEST SURPRISE EVER My friend told me I had to hear this cd, but not being a big bluegrass or country music fan, I put it off. Who knew what a mistake that was. I absolutely LOVE this CD. There is not one song on this CD that I don't like...even The Fox is a great song!!! This CD is in my top 5 favorites of all time. It has also opened up a whole new world of music for me and I love it!!!
Wow! New favorite CD I LOVE this CD. As a fan of country music, I heard Nickel Creek first when "When you come back down" played on CMT. I forgot about it for a while, and stumbled upon this CD recently and purchased it. It isn't exactly blue grass, and isn't exactly country. It has some celtic influence in some songs. The voice of Sara Watkins is just unbelievable. Actually, they are all truly talented musicians. I am buying this CD for my Dad, who is a big fan of blue grass. I am now hooked, and am going to be buying their next CD. When I found out they were influenced by Alison Kraus, I am also going to check out some of her stuff too. |
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