USA Today review 8-9-05

[e-rock2]

USA Today gave it 3 stars out of 4 in their paper today. Of course they had it listed in the Country section. Maybe someday they'll shake that label. Anyway, I don't know if it's online, but if someone wants to dig up a link that would be great.

[elbereth]

Here is the link

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-08-08-listen-up_x.htm

You have to go all the way to the bottom of the page to find it.

[Thistle]

In the UK, whenever I try to find their CDs in a music shop they're always in the country section, without fail. In the shops' defence though - I have to say that I never know where to look for it by style. I'm really not sure where I would put if it the job of categorisation was given to me - I think I'd just have to create a new section!

[Sneezy II]

The USA Today review: note title Why should WE LET the fire die... ???

Nickel Creek, Why Should We Let the Fire Die? (* * *) This acoustic trio moves farther and farther from anything Bill Monroe would have recognized as bluegrass, working with big-time rock producers Eric Valentine and Tony Berg. Fiddler Sara Watkins' folksy numbers — particularly a graceful reading of Bob Dylan's Tomorrow Is a Long Time— balance mandolinist Chris Thile's pensive, harmonically complex songs. Encompassing elegiac instrumentals and pulsing, unplugged emo-pop, Why Should We Let the Fire Die? has more dissonance than a one-sided goodbye and more deceptive resolutions than an on-again-off-again romance. —Mansfield

Sounds like a country take on a non-country album. Still it got ***. :)

[funnycats]

maybe because they are a country group.

[e-rock2]

In many people's minds they are still a country group although that is very confining and just plain not true.

[funnycats]

but its weird because where i live they are in the rock section...
they can be considered like rock/pop because they kind of are. but i am still going to say there a country group.

Kind of like Shania Twain even though she sings more popish music. i still say shes a country singer.
ew, i dont even like shania twain anymore.

[Meghan Narser]

I wouldn't say they were a country group at all personally. Nothing against country, I just don't see it.

And I'd put WSTFD in the rock section. Or somewhere close to it anyway.

[chickzilla]

hahaha sorry Meghan, i just got a picture of that... you get the Rock section... and then the Near Rock which has no label, but is close to the Rock shelves so everyone understands it to be Near Rock cause its well... hehehe ;)

[Meghan Narser]

of course! Actually, if I had my own record shop, it'd be a circular room (or space, whatever) with all the different genres on the wall(s). And then another circle made up of tables that you put the Near Genres on and right in the middle the final round table with Nickel Creek. The first ablum closer to Bluegrass, This Side closer to Pop and WSTFD Nearest the rock :)

[ecarmikel]

haha nice...

but seriously, emo-pop??? and they misspelled the album name too. Oh well. It tied with the first album mentioned w/ 3 stars at least. It looked like the rest of the albums that were reviewed came out as trash.