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Artist: Nickel Creek

The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005

Nickel Creek – It’s about the music

Nickel Creek are young, talented, successful, and stylish. And good. James Joyce’s classic short story “Eveline” gives us a character who is bound to her family, yet falls in love with a man who wants to take her across the ocean for a new life. Her mother’s deathbed wish is for Eveline to take care [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002

Nickel Creek – This Side

If you’re of a mind to stir up a little controversy among die-hard bluegrass followers, just mention Nickel Creek; if you don’t hear “that ain’t bluegrass” or “that’s bluegrass lite,” you’re hanging with an unusual crowd. Their videos may do well on CMT, their album may have gone gold, and IBMA awards may sit on [...]

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Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001

Nickel Creek – Master Musician’s Festival (Somerset, KY)

One of Kentucky’s — and the festival circuit’s — best-kept secrets is the Master Musician’s Festival near Somerset, Kentucky. Now in its eighth year, the MMF is situated on a flat rise in the shadow of three mountains in the Appalachian foothills. On the final night of the festival, Nickel Creek has packed the field [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #27 May-June 2000

Nickel Creek – Self-Titled

Youth isn’t always wasted on the young. Exuberance, innovation and sheer musical talent unite in a confident and accomplished debut album by this foursome, three of whom have barely reached voting age. It doesn’t hurt that their producer is Alison Krauss, who signals her presence in the album’s pacing, musical literacy, and fearless penetration to [...]

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From the Blogs

  • A Double Shot of Southern Comfort With Tom Petty and the Tontons
    The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, isn’t all about the headlining acts such as Kings of Leon and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The pride of Gainesville, Florida, Petty had sort of the home-field advantage Saturday night on the Hangout Stage, playing just one state over and practically a direct Interstate-10 shot from Heartbreakers… […]
  • CD Review - Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters "Just For Today"
    Just For Today Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters It's Ronnie Earl's band, but he doesn't dominate it. Recorded live at a couple of venues in his home state of Massachusetts,the Stony Plains release is a seamless blend of jazz, soul and r&b by a band of seasoned vets comfortable enough with one another to have an intense musical conversation […]
  • Americana Boogie Music Releases for the week of May 21st... Jude Johnstone, Red Dirt Rangers, Cold Satellite, Augie Meyers
    COLD SATELLITE (with JEFFREY FOUCAULT) Cavalcade (Signature Sounds) 2013 sophomore album from this band centered on the collaboration between songwriter Jeffrey Foucault and poet Lisa Olstein. Cavalcade both refines and concentrates the band's signature amalgam of Rock, Blues, and Country. Described by legendary music… […]
  • CD Review - Hans Theessink "Wishing Well"
    Although Hans Theessink has made a name for himself with his acoustic blues guitar proficiency, he's the closest thing to Ry Cooder other than Cooder himself. On his last outing on Blue Groove, Theessink collaborated with long time Cooder vocalist Terry Evans for 2012's Delta Time, a soulful, gospel drenched electric blues excursion. This time out […]
  • A Tribute to The Doors Ray Manzarek 1939-2013
    "You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way."    Ray Manzarek   In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years old. I was completely transfixed by the band. Having an older musician brother […]
  • CD Review: The Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band - Roots of My Raising (Melody Roundup, 2013)
    Country artist's fine return to his bluegrass roots Clinton Gregory had a run of Top-100 country hits in the early '90s, but both his releases and commercial success became scarce by mid-decade. He returned last year with Too Much Ain't Enough, his first album in… […]

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