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This Side, Nickel Creek's sophomore release, finds bandmembers Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins out of their teens and into their twenties after playing together for 12 years. The southern California band's self-titled debut received wide critical acclaim for welding jazz, rock, and classical music to a bluegrass base. But This Side solidifies Nickel Creek's position as the single most original and inventive bluegrass band to emerge in the early '00s. Hardcore bluegrass fans wary of experimentation or even progressive bluegrass may scoff at this claim. But, when it comes down to it, the gorgeous, open production by Alison Krauss gives Nickel Creek's guitars, mandolins, and fiddles the space to dance through sparkling and genuine arrangements. Covers of everything from Pavement's rollicking Terror Twilight highlight, "Spit on a Stranger," to Carrie Newcomer's scathing folk "Should've Known Better" to the traditional "House Carpenter" are given elegant and unique twists. Plus, Thile and the Watkins siblings' originals, like the sleepy, subtle "Speak" and the darker "Beauty and the Mess," easily outdo the likes of folk-rockers Dave Matthews and Hootie & the Blowfish, while forging a new style to rejuvenate a genre that has always been a bit of a dark horse. It's decidedly more pop than post-rock-gone-folk outfits like Papa M, David Grubbs, Palace, and Miighty Flashlight, and lacks the rock & roll flash of Ryan Adams. But Nickel Creek's music is endlessly rewarding nonetheless, and accessible to just about everyone.
© Charles Spano /TiVo
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Chris Thile, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Stephen Malkmus, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Sean Watkins, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Wayne Kirkpatrick, Composer - GORDON KENNEDY, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Carrie Newcomer, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Sean Watkins, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Thile, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Sean Watkins, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist - David Puckett, Composer
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Thile, Arranger, Work Arranger - Traditional, Composer - Sara Watkins, Arranger, Work Arranger - Sean Watkins, Arranger, Work Arranger - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Thile, Composer - Luke Bulla, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Andy Irvine, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Thile, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Thile, Composer - Nickel Creek, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Sugar Hill ℗ 2002 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Album review
This Side, Nickel Creek's sophomore release, finds bandmembers Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins out of their teens and into their twenties after playing together for 12 years. The southern California band's self-titled debut received wide critical acclaim for welding jazz, rock, and classical music to a bluegrass base. But This Side solidifies Nickel Creek's position as the single most original and inventive bluegrass band to emerge in the early '00s. Hardcore bluegrass fans wary of experimentation or even progressive bluegrass may scoff at this claim. But, when it comes down to it, the gorgeous, open production by Alison Krauss gives Nickel Creek's guitars, mandolins, and fiddles the space to dance through sparkling and genuine arrangements. Covers of everything from Pavement's rollicking Terror Twilight highlight, "Spit on a Stranger," to Carrie Newcomer's scathing folk "Should've Known Better" to the traditional "House Carpenter" are given elegant and unique twists. Plus, Thile and the Watkins siblings' originals, like the sleepy, subtle "Speak" and the darker "Beauty and the Mess," easily outdo the likes of folk-rockers Dave Matthews and Hootie & the Blowfish, while forging a new style to rejuvenate a genre that has always been a bit of a dark horse. It's decidedly more pop than post-rock-gone-folk outfits like Papa M, David Grubbs, Palace, and Miighty Flashlight, and lacks the rock & roll flash of Ryan Adams. But Nickel Creek's music is endlessly rewarding nonetheless, and accessible to just about everyone.
© Charles Spano /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:58
- Main artists: Nickel Creek
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sugar Hill Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2006 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2006 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
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