Broken Masterpieces

September 13, 2005

Blown Away By Nickel Creek (or at least 2 of them)

Two nights ago I went to a benefit at the Hard Rock Cafe for Katrina relief. Molly Jenson, Jon Foreman from Switchfoot and Sean O'Donnell from Reeve Oliver along with 25 or so other San Diego musicians were to play 2 songs each. One of the last acts was 2 of the members (Sean and Sara) of Nickel Creek so I stuck around because I'd only heard a little of their music (of course our main music guy, JonnyUps, spoke of them here). They proceeded to sing one song with vocals then did an instrumental with just a violin and accoustic guitar. They kicked butt! My next album purchase will be this one:

The rest of the night was pretty cool as I did have a bit of time to talk to Jon from Switchfoot and caught up a bit with him. He's such a gracious guy and a person worth meeting.

Posted by Tim at September 13, 2005 10:41 PM
Comments

I don't like everything they do but what they do well they do very well! You may not know the extent to which they are involved in the Bluegrass scene. Their string performances are all over the place ... especially Thune (?).

Posted by: John Gillmartin at September 14, 2005 09:50 AM

on top of it...they do a Dylan song. :)

Posted by: JonnyUps at September 14, 2005 03:33 PM