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Nickel Creek

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Nickel Creek (formerly known as The Nickel Creek Band) is an American Americana music group consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), and siblings Sara Watkins (fiddle) and Sean Watkins (guitar). [1]

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A Dotted Line

A Dotted Line is the fourth major album release and sixth studio album overall by progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek.

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Amy Grant

Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author and media personality.

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Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits (ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas, by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player.

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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is an American band that combines jazz and bluegrass music.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Bonnaroo Music Festival

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day music festival developed and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment.

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Bruce Molsky

Bruce C. Molsky (born 1955, New York City) is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer.

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Carlsbad, California

Carlsbad is an affluent seaside resort city occupying a stretch of Pacific coastline in northern San Diego County, California.

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Carrie Newcomer

Carrie Newcomer is an American singer, songwriter and author.

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Chris Thile

Christopher Scott Thile (born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers.

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CMT (U.S. TV channel)

CMT, originally launched as CMTV, is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Compass Records

Compass Records is an independent record label founded in 1995 by musicians Garry West and Alison Brown that specializes in folk, bluegrass, Celtic, jazz, and acoustic music.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Country Music Association Awards

The Country Music Association Awards, also known as the CMA Awards or CMAs, are presented to country music artists and broadcasters to recognize outstanding achievement in the country music industry.

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Dark horse

A dark horse is a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort, or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.

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Dave Matthews

David John Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is a South African-born American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band.

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David Rawlings

David Todd Rawlings is an American guitarist, singer, and record producer.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Eric Valentine

Eric Dodd, known professionally as Eric Valentine, is an American record producer, who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride.

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Fiction Family

Fiction Family is a musical collaboration between Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Gillian Welch

Gillian Howard Welch (born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Glen Phillips

Glen Phillips (born December 29, 1970) is an American songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the bluegrass music genre.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 2011.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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High Sierra Music Festival

High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day music festival held in Quincy, California, United States, a mountainous area about 80 miles northwest of Reno, Nevada.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home.

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Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986 by Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber and Jim Sonefeld.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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International Bluegrass Music Awards

The International Bluegrass Music Awards is an award show for Bluegrass Music presented by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA).

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

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Jon Brion

Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer.

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Little Worlds

Little Worlds is the tenth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2003.

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Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music bands and artists, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.

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Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) at Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Mutual Admiration Society (collaboration)

Mutual Admiration Society is a musical collaboration between singer/songwriter Glen Phillips and progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek.

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Nickel Creek (album)

Nickel Creek is an album by the acoustic/"newgrass" trio Nickel Creek.

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Nickel Creek discography

This article represents the discography of progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City.

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North County Times

The North County Times was a local newspaper in San Diego's North County.

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Oakland Tribune

The Oakland Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault.

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Pavement (band)

Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989.

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Punch Brothers

Punch Brothers is an American band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass).

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Reasons Why: The Very Best

Reasons Why: The Very Best is a compilation album by the band Nickel Creek, released on Sugar Hill in late 2006.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Sara Watkins

Sara Ullrika Watkins (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler.

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Scotch & Chocolate

"Scotch & Chocolate" is an instrumental song played by the modern bluegrass band Nickel Creek.

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Sean Watkins

Sean Charles Watkins (born February 18, 1977) is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Spit on a Stranger

"Spit on a Stranger" is a song by American indie rock band Pavement, released as a single on June 22, 1999 from their final record Terror Twilight.

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Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label.

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Switchfoot

Switchfoot is an American alternative rock band from San Diego, California.

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The Lighthouse's Tale

"The Lighthouse's Tale" is a song by progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek, taken from their debut album, Nickel Creek, released in 2001.

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The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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This Side

This Side is the Grammy-winning fourth album by the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek, released on Sugar Hill in the summer of 2002.

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This Side (song)

"This Side" was the first single by the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek from their second album, This Side.

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Tift Merritt

Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Brosseau

Tom Brosseau is an American musical storyteller and guitarist, born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vince Gill

Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Vista, California

Vista (Spanish: view) is a city in Southern California and is located in northwestern San Diego County.

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When You Come Back Down

"When You Come Back Down" was the debut single by progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek from their self titled debut album.

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Why Should the Fire Die?

Why Should The Fire Die? is the third major album release and fifth album overall by progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Creek

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