Nickel Creek

Described as anything from acoustic rock to contemporary roots or bluegrass edged. Whatever the label that’s going to try and get applied to them, there’s no denying that this is a band that has made the break through from being a back of California roots based acoustic trio to phenomenally successful Californian roots based trio and that’s not just critical success with poverty snapping at it’s heels, nope that’s the real bring some of the mainstream with you success that gets you real attention.
Nickel Creek have classic instrumentation, mandolin, fiddle and guitar that provide the building blocks and access points into so many different songs and tunes. The band have also explored solo furrows as well as collaborations with other artists.
Unlike some of their contemporaries, Nickel Creek managed to avoid the pitfalls of being sucked into writing faux roots songs. Theirs wasn’t the way of the cowboy, the trucker or the miner, they kept to the themes that they knew and it seems to be paying dividends.
The band have got three albums to date and I confess I’ve only heard the last. I’ve never seen them live and that’s something that I’m looking to see change this year.
A selection of Nickel Creek’s tunes can be found on http://www.myspace.com/nickelcreek