Nickel Creek - This Side (2002)
Nickel Creek is an American acoustic music trio. Although the group’s music has roots from bluegrass, the trio describes itself as "progressive acoustic". Nickel Creek consists of three permanent members: Chris Thile (mandolin), Sara Watkins (fiddle), and her brother Sean Watkins (guitar).
The trio has always recorded and toured with a bass player, but no bass
player has ever been an official member of the band. Chris’s father
Scott Thile played bass with the group until 2000, followed by Byron
House, and Derek Jones. Mark Schatz has played bass regularly with the
group since 2003. In interviews, the band has stressed that they are not a bluegrass
band, but a band that "incorporates bluegrass into [its] music". Nickel Creek has covered songs by Radiohead, Pavement, Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, the Jackson Five and even "Toxic" by Britney Spears.
This Side is the Grammy-winning second album by the band Nickel Creek, released in the summer of 2002. It gained some notoriety in indie rock circles due to the group’s recording of a Pavement song, Spit on a Stranger. Alison Krauss acted as a producer for the album. The
album was a major transition from their previous releases, the first
three being purely bluegrass. Although the core influence of bluegrass
remained throughout the album, many other genres were present, such as indie rock and folk rock (the band covered Spit on a Stranger by Pavement, and Should’ve Known Better by Carrie Newcomer).
As with Nickel Creek, critics responded positively to This Side. Charles Spano of All Music Guide
said that "Thile and the Watkins siblings’ originals, like the sleepy,
subtle "Speak" and the darker "Beauty and the Mess," easily outdo the
likes of folk-rockers Dave Matthews and Hootie & the Blowfish, while forging a new style to rejuvenate a genre that has always been a bit of a dark horse."
This Side entered the Billboard 200 at #18 on the chart, and at #2 on the magazine’s Top Country Albums chart. The album was soon certified gold the following year of its release by the RIAA. The success of This Side earned the group several awards, including a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. The band was featured in Rolling Stone’s "Best Of 2002" edition following the release of This Side.
During the 2002 and 2003 This Side tour, Nickel Creek performed mainly as an headlining act, but also opened five shows for John Mayer in November 2002 in Upstate New York and New England, and toured with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings earlier in the year. In 2003, Nickel Creek appeared on Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’s album Little Worlds.
DownloadableSongs:
- Smoothie Song (instrumental) [d]
- Spit on a Stranger [d]
- Speak [d]
- Hanging by a Thread [d]
- I Should’ve Known Better [d]
- This Side [d]
- Green and Gray [d]
- Seven Wonders [d]
- House Carpenter
- Beauty and the Mess [d]
- Sabra Girl [d]
- Young [d]
- Brand New Sidewalk [d]
++ sangat direkomendasikan bagi anda yang suka musik akustik (dengan tema cinta-cintaan tentunya, haha)…
