Alright, so I admit when I started writing this post it was about Fiction Family, the new project of Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek. But after listening to their songs up on their myspace and not being incredibly impressed (the album's not out until next week), and then doing some research and realizing that Sean Watkins is not the lead singer/songwriter of Nickel Creek, I decided to just go with Nickel Creek since I haven't mentioned them yet on this blog. Not to say that Fiction Family won't be worth a listen, especially if you're a fan of Switchfoot. And if you really are interested, they are playing at Abbey Pub in Chicago tomorrow (Thursday) night.
Chris Thille is the lead singer/songwriter/mandolin player of Nickel Creek I was hoping for. I only have their album Why Should the Fire Die? from 2005, but there are a few solo acoustic songs on that album written by Thile that are really nice. The full band arrangements lean more towards either pop or bluegrass and are pretty good, too. Here's a video of "Jealous of the Moon" from that album:
(Sean Watkins is the guitarist/background vocalist on the right)
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