By bandweblogs on Mar 30, 2009 in Albums, Bands, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Dave Rawling, Gillian Welch, John Paul Jones, Nickel Creek, Sara Watkins | 0 Comments

You could say that Sara Watkins’ solo debut has been a lifetime in the making. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter and fiddle player spent nearly two decades – all of her teenage and young adult life – as one-third of Nickel Creek, the Grammy Award-winning acoustic trio that used contemporary bluegrass as a starting point for its no-genre-barred sound …
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By bandweblogs on Jan 30, 2008 in Albums, Bands, Music, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Bluegrass, Brokeback Mountain, Cds, Celtic Connections Festival, Chris Eldridge, Chris Thile, Gabe Witcher, Greg Garrison, Leftover Salmon, Mark Twain, Music, Musicians, Nickel Creek, Noam Pikelny, Nonesuch Records, Punch Brothers, Record Companies, The Infamous Stringdusters, Tour Dates, Track Listings, Willie Nelson | 0 Comments

Nonesuch Records releases ‘Punch’, the debut album from Punch Brothers, on February 25, 2008 in the UK (February 26, US). The band – composer-singer-mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile’s new venture – includes Chris Eldridge (guitar), Greg Garrison (bass), Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Gabe Witcher (fiddle) …
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