Amoeba Music

By J Poet

Nickel Creek’s first album Nickel Creek (2000 Sugar Hill), produced by Alison Krauss, gained recognition for the young trio’s instrumental prowess and the new blood they brought to the bluegrass stage. It had the good fortune to come out the year before the Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack (2001 Lost highway) sparked a new interest in acoustic music. Slow and steady sales earned them a platinum album for their effort. Nickel Creek was a solid newgrass outing, but there were hints that they were going to push beyond the boundaries of the genre even then. “Reasons Why” was clearly a pop song in folk clothing and their follow up, This Side (2002 Sugar Hill), won... Read More

Genre:

Country, Bluegrass, Contemporary Bluegrass

City Of Origin:

San Diego, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1989