Watkins, Green release new CDs
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 – Sara Watkins released her second solo album, "Sun Midnight Sun," after being with Nickel Creek. Produced by guitarist, singer and songwriter Blake Mills, co-founder of the band Simon Dawes, the album features Fiona Apple, Jackson Browne, Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Benmont Tench and Sean Watkins.
Pat Green released "Songs We Wish We'd Written II" (Sugar Hill), his first disc for the label. The first edition of this came out in 2001 with fellow Texas artist Cory Morrow. Green covers such songs as Joe Ely's All Just to Get to You and Lyle Lovett's If I Had a Boat.
More news for Sara Watkins
- 04/18/25: I'm With Her is "Standing on the Fault Line"
- 03/09/23: Nickel Creek finds out "Where the Long Line Leads"
- 02/07/23: Nickel Creek returns to road
- 01/27/21: Watkins announces children's disc
- 01/21/20: Watkins Family Hour returns to action
- 04/21/16: Watkins remains "Young in All the Wrong Ways"
- 03/27/12: Sara Watkins plans soph disc
- 07/06/09: Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins contribute to Cy Coleman tribute
CD reviews for Sara Watkins
Understand that this is a children's album. Yet, if you're looking for the sounds of Sara Watkins with her groups Nickel Creek and I'm With Her bandmates, they are here on "Under the Pepper Tree," just not in the way you typically hear them. The album also features guest appearances from Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, David Garza and Watkins' now three-year-old daughter who inevitably factored into the album's inspiration.
These 15 songs, only two of which are ...
Sara Watkins' voice is powerful. "Young In All The Wrong Ways" showcases her instrument admirably. Watkins burst upon the music scene in 1989, as part of Nickel Creek, teaming with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. Nickel Creek had a solid run of recording and live music performances for a couple of decades before the members spread out into other collaborations (Nickel Creek has played a few festival dates most years, alongside their other projects). ...
Well, so much for the sweet, adorable Sara Watkins. After an endearing, cuddly solo debut in 2009 that included her foot-stomping rendition of John Hartford's Long Hot Summer Day, Watkins adds a new wrinkle with her latest effort: an edgy, sometimes angry attitude.
Bathing her songs in a folky-bluegrass setting with an array of way-cool guests, If It Pleases You is a defiant flip-off while Willie Nelson's I'm a Memory seethes with open hostility as Watkins and brother Sean rage ...
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