Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek) April 21, 2010

You could say that Sara Watkins' solo debut has been a lifetime in the making. The 27-year-old singer, songwriter and fiddle player spent nearly two decades -all of her teenage and young adult life- as one third of Nickel Creek, the Grammy Award-winning acoustic trio that used contemporary bluegrass as a starting point for its no-genre-barred sound. Now, with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, she is releasing her self-titled solo disc produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. It features an impressively wide range of backing players and old friends, including itinerant alt-country duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawling, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; fellow travelers from the bluegrass world like Tim O'Brien, Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates.

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