Results for "Nickel Creek"

Nickel Creek

Jon Stickley Trio: Point to Point

by Geno Thackara
May 4, 2023

Cross Nickel Creek with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and you'll start getting close to Jon Stickley's neighborhood--but there's still a lot more in there to discover once you make your way around town. The JS3 starts with folk/bluegrass instrumentation (acoustic guitar/violin/drums) and adds dashes of anything from math-prog to Latin or Celtic, while the dazzling ...

Blue Grass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music by Craig Harris

by C. Michael Bailey
August 3, 2018

Blue Grass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Craig Harris 400 Pages ISBN: # 978-1455624010 Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. 2018 Musician/author Craig Harris' previous book, The Band: Pioneers of Americana Music (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) focused intensely on a single pixel in the universe he reveals in his present expansive ...

Jon Stickley Trio: Lost at Last

by Geno Thackara
November 10, 2016

Intricacy and virtuosity can so often turn listeners away if they get excessive, but the Jon Stickley Trio finds that sweet spot where it never sounds awkward. They specialize in a stylistic mishmosh based around (but hardly limited to) folk, jazz and bluegrass, hooky and melodic enough to make any instrumental flash feel like an afterthought. ...

T Sisters at SFJAZZ

by Asher Wolf
July 21, 2016

T Sisters SFJAZZ Summer Jazz Fest San Francisco, CA July 14, 2016 You don't often hear a banjo and washboard at the SFJAZZ Center, but the T Sisters were invited for a reason. Since their debut EP in 2012, Erika, Chloe, and Rachel Tietjen have busily ...

Clearwater Festival 2012 Line-Up

May 24, 2012

Clearwater's 2012 Great Hudson River Revival, also known as the Clearwater Festival, the country’s oldest music and environmental festival, will be held on June 16 and 17 this year. Over the weekend, hundreds of musical artists will appear at the beautiful Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY to perform on 7 bio-diesel and solar powered stages. ...

This Side

By Nickel Creek

Label: Sugar Hill Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Smoothie Song; Spit On A Stranger; Speak; Hanging By A Thread; I Should

Nickel Creek: This Side

by C. Michael Bailey
August 17, 2002

Bluegrass wunderkinder return with a much different take on bluegrass. Nickel Creek’s newest release, This Side, is a definite extension of their self-titled first recording and Chris Thile’s and Sean Watkin’s most recent recordings ( Not All Who Wander Are Lost and Let It Fall, respectively). This Side boasts plenty of the trio’s trademark acoustic magic ...