The Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum selling trio Nickel Creek officially reunites for the first time since 2007, in celebration of the band’s 25th anniversary. Chris Thile (mandolin/vocals), Sara Watkins (fiddle/vocals) and Sean Watkins (guitar/vocals) began as bluegrass child prodigies, developing a loyal fan base and releasing several acclaimed albums in the early 2000s.
Each member went on to solo projects and collaborations during the hiatus, including Punch Brothers and Fiction Family. Don’t miss this reunion!
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As the frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish, Darius Rucker was one of the most popular musicians in mainstream pop/rock during the mid-’90s. But with recent hits like “Wagon Wheel” and “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” he has cemented himself as a country music star.
“This time, I really wanted to do something different,” says Darius Rucker. “I went straight from my first album into my second, and it really just picked up where the other one left off. So when we went into the studio on this one, we really wanted to take our time and not even start worrying about a record until we had songs that we felt were the right ones. And when I heard what would become the lead single, ‘True Believers,’ played back, I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve never done anything like that before!'”
“True Believers” – a triumphant reflection of the rewards and challenges of sustaining a marriage – was the first song recorded for this project and became the first single and title track for Rucker’s third and most ambitious country studio album. And like his previous two albums, ”Learn To Live” and “Charleston, SC 1966” that topped the Billboard Country Album chart and produced five Number One singles, “True Believers” also debuted at No. 1, only this time he opted to dig deeper, work with new collaborators, and create something more resonant both musically and emotionally.
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Jimi Hendrix once famously remarked that, “Heaven is lying at Buddy Guy’s feet while listening to him play guitar.” Ranked 30th on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list, the five-time Grammy Award winner and Chicago blues legend has influenced titans such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Hendrix. He will be accompanied by the American funk and soul band led by the pedal steel guitar master Robert Randolph.
Buddy Guy is one of the titans of the blues, straddling traditional and modern forms, as well as musical generations. He’s worked with Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf, on one hand, and Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones, on the other. There are few notable blues figures that Guy hasn’t brushed up against. He was even an influence on Jimi Hendrix.
The genre’s most electrifying guitarist, Guy has remained a vital and current musician, moving blues forward without losing sight of its roots. He’s renowned for his raw, blistering vocals and high-voltage guitar playing. His plays a Fender Stratocaster, employing feedback, distortion and extreme string-bending. He spent much of the Sixties on the venerable Chess label and thereafter recorded for Vanguard, Atco, Silvertone and others. Guy attained great stature within blues circles over the course of three decades, but his career broke wide open in 1991 with the release of “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues.” This landmark release won him a Grammy and five W.C. Handy awards, and he recorded and toured prolifically in its wake.
Clapton has proclaimed Guy “by far without a doubt the best guitar player alive… He really changed the course of rock and roll blues.” Guy regards himself as a “caretaker of the blues.” Having learned from the likes of Waters, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim and Magic Sam, he explains, “I just take what they taught me and keep adding to it.”
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Featuring legendary jazz-rock icons Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and helped define the soundtrack of the ’70s with hits such as “Reelin’ in the Years,” “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Deacon Blues” and more.
Steely Dan has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and helped define the soundtrack of the ’70s with hits such as “Reelin’ in the Years,” “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “F.M.,” “Peg,” “Hey Nineteen,” “Deacon Blues,” and “Babylon Sisters,” culled from their seven platinum albums issued between 1972 and 1980 (including 1977’s ground breaking “Aja”). They reunited in the early ’90s, launching a string of sold-out tours. In 2000 they released multi-Grammy winner (including Album Of The Year) “Two Against Nature”, and released its acclaimed follow-up “Everything Must Go” in 2003. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
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