Sara Watkins self-titled debut album out April 7th
 

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. Along the way, she’s hinted at her desire to do a project of her own and even organized some exploratory sessions in Los Angeles about six years ago.

Now, with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, she is releasing her self-titled solo disc, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and 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.

Listen to "All This Time"

For more info on Sara Watkins: http://www.sarawatkins.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sarawatkinssolo

Sara Watkins self-titled debut album out now
 

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. Along the way, she’s hinted at her desire to do a project of her own and even organized some exploratory sessions in Los Angeles about six years ago.

Now, with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, she is releasing her self-titled solo disc, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and 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.




TOUR DATES
April 9 Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Spartanburg, South Carolina
April 10 Fox Theatre Atlanta, Georgia
April 11 Florida Theater Jacksonville, Florida
April 15 Dakota Restaurant & Jazz Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 16 Dakota Restaurant & Jazz Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 17 The Union Naperville, Illinois
April 18 Vanderbilt University – Rites of Spring Nashville, Tennessee
April 22 The Mercury Lounge New York, NY
April 24 World Café Live Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 25 9:30 Club w/Justin James Washington, DC
April 28 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts
April 29 Café 939 Boston, Massachusetts
April 30 Port City Music Hall Portland, Maine
May 2 Bearsville Theater Woodstock, New York
May 6 Shank Hall Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 7 Majestic Theatre Madison, Wisconsin
May 8 Abbey Pub Chicago, Illinois
May 9 Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
May 12 Swedish American Hall San Francisco, California
May 14 Largo at The Coronet Los Angeles, California
May 16 Mississippi Studios Portland, Oregon

For more info on Sara Watkins:

Official SiteMySpace