3 new articles

[Adyn]

There were 3 NC articles posted on the Cafe today, thought I'd pass em along for those of you who don't use the site...

Nickel Creek- A little band with a big, folksy sound is moving bluegrass out of its banjo-backed box (http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/6027144.htm)

Is Nickel Creek bluegrass? Four experts sound off. (http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/6027142.htm)

Music Preview: Nickel Creek lets music flow past tradition (http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030609nickel0609fnp4.asp)

Enjoy :) (I got warm fuzzies seein NC get 3 out of 4 links on the Cafe news links :D )

[monkeyjunkie]

Thanks Adyn. Fun articles. Did you happen to noticed the part where it says Thile has been playing with the Watkins' since he was 13? Hmmm...

Curious what other Creesters classify them as when trying to describe NCs music to their unenlightened (for having never heard Nickle Creek) friends. Ihave been using contemporary bluegrass, but perhaps it should be contemporary acoustic?

[Srol]

I think that has to do with whom you are introducing the band to. Up here in the New York Metropolitan area, bluegrass fans are few and far between, so I tend to stick with the acoustic label.

The best label of course is always just Nickel Creek Music. Like that one guy at the end of the second article said, Who cares, it's great music.

[linzee_nc]

Thanks for posting Adyn. I usually describe them as progressive acoustic. I like to see people's blank stares after that one.

I love how the one article described Chris...

Get Thile on a roll and he detours wildly from esoteric comparisons of the composing styles of Mozart and Bartok to gushing praise for Radiohead, Nirvana and The Beatles.

That is so precisely Chris.

[Goose_17]

wow..great articles. thx heather. i love how the ibma's guy hays is defending them. and great point that while bluegrass usually has a banjo..doyle lawson's group doesn't. personally when describing the group..i mention the various people they cover like bob dylan, radiohead, nirvana, celtic fiddle tunes, mozart, the beatles, and bluegrass. since most ppl..even here in the south don't care for things with the bluegrass label (metro atlanta)..i sell them on their diversity they play, the AMAZING concerts they do, and they diversity of their crowds at shows. i say they play everything and could be classified as 'progressive acoustic'. People who know them will say also that..you can't classify it..its nickel creek music. thx again heather.

[matt the fiddler]

regardless of traditional bluegrass....... [[and one who thinks it is suposted to be traditional bluegrass has better go and really find out what real bluegrass is..] [mmm ol' dangerfield.. mmmm]] i think it is narrow to define bluegrass to anything with banjo by that standard.. bela fleck playing bach is bluegrass... and darol anger's dueling it out with mike marshall is not [even thought i would usually call that new grass]

and as i have said before the banjo came from africa, so it isn't really bluegrass's instrument to claim... kinda a pet peve of mine when they claim it as thier own.... their music

they way i look at it, is rather than a building that you build on a foundation [as some people have said creek is built on a foundation of bluegrass] it is more like a spider web, with anchor points in different areas.. definatly some anchor points are in parts of bluegrass, some in jazz, and irish.. yet the entity itself is a twisting pattern and new construction off of the existing anchor points... [yet some of these points are anchored in allready progressed areas like newgrass, which is itself a complex twisting of it's own....] hmmmm

[Srol]

If anything with a banjo is bluegrass, then Matchbox 20's song Unwell is Bluegrass.

(which it clearly isn't to anyone who has listened to it :p)