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Nickel Creek: Celebrating the Now

Holly Gleason, Paste, 15 April 2014

NEVER MIND THE GRAMMY AWARDS, the accolades and being young, gifted and at her creative peak. There was a moment during the recording of 2005's Why Must The Fire Die when Sara Watkins found herself questioning everything. It wasn't that things were so bad, just that the fiddler/vocalist and her Nickel Creek bandmates — mandolinist/vocalist/sometime Punch Brother Chris Thile and her brother, guitarist/vocalist Sean Watkins — were exhausted.

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