Sean Watkins

Sean Watkins, an associate from the progressive bluegrass music group Nickel Creek, released his debut album in 1991. Sean and his sister Sara, alongside father and kid duo Scott and Chris Thile, produced Nickel Creek in NORTH PARK in 1990. The four fulfilled in a every week pizza parlor display with the southern California group Bluegrass Etc. Sean demonstrated virtuosic talent in early stages, achieving the finals both in mandolin and electric guitar at the Country wide Flatpicking Tournament at age 16. In 1994, Nickel Creek reached the local department of the Pizza Hut International Bluegrass Music group Championship. The music group released its self-titled debut on Glucose Hill Records in-may 2000. The solitary “EXPLANATIONS WHY” hit number 1 for the Americana graphs. While Nickel Creek’s origins lie in contemporary folk and bluegrass, also, they are influenced by from alt-pop to Ella Fitzgerald to Beethoven. The group was nominated for just two Grammys in 2001. That same yr, Watkins released his first single effort, ALLOW IT Fall, a assortment of unique instrumentals. He demonstrated indications of Nickel Creek’s fresh pop path on 2003’s genre-bending 26 Kilometers, a spare time activity he would become a habit on 2006’s electrifying Blinders On. In ’09 2009, Watkins and Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman released an eponymous recording beneath the moniker Fiction Family members. Their cooperation yielded a sophomore outing in 2013 with Fiction Family members Reunion. 2014 demonstrated a busy yr for Watkins using the release of the Dotted Line, the very first collection of songs from Nickel Creek since 2005, and a fresh solo recording, All I REALLY DO Is Lay. In 2015, Sean and his sister Sara released The Watkins Family members Hour, the first-ever studio room recording from the duo’s longtime revue at Los Angeles’ Largo; in addition, it presented Fiona Apple and Benmont Tench. Early in 2016, Sean released his 5th solo album, What things to Fear.