, a bluegrass/folk/acoustic trio, performed at Luther last night and they were incredible. Each individual member of the group is an incredible musician but the mandolinist, Chris Thile, clearly sticks out as the most proficient.
for more photos from the show.
They performed several covers - some bluegrass and some pop - including Randy Newman's "Short People" and an ironically musically solid rendition of Britney Spears' "Toxic". The set included songs off of their new album like "Doubting Thomas" and "Can't Complain", the latter of which was one of my favorite tunes of the evening.
Older songs made apperances as well, such as "The Fox" and "When You Come Back Down" and a couple of really old ones, too. After one of the really old ones, Sara said "That song was about coffee... could you tell?" referencing the song Old Cold Coffee on the Dashboard from their 1997 release "Here to There."
I was fortunate enough to have a front-row seat and took more than a hundred pictures, the best of which I uploaded to for your viewing pleasure.
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A hundred pictures? I don’t think I know how to respond to that.
I’m incredibly jealous that that you not only attended that concert, but had a front row seat!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Nickel Creek is fantastic. If you check out http://www.archive.org, there are some really great live sets of theirs.
Actually, I may be somewhat incorrect on that. The live sets may actually be Mutual Admiration Society, which was a collaboration between Nickel Creek and Glen Phillips (former lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band that I have a feeling would be one of your favorites if you were about eight years older, though you might like them anyway). You’d probably like Glen too, if you haven’t heard him. Bunch of his live stuff on archive.org too.
I love Nickel Creek…I’d love to see them live one day