Dateline: April 2, 2001

Last month I spotlighted Rascal Flatts; this month I will feature Nickel Creek. This awesome group has Sara Watkins (fiddle, voice), Sean Watkins (guitar, voice), and Chris Thile (mandolin, voice) - all instrumental phenoms.

Nickel Creek is a wonderfully talented group of young people. They sound as if they have been playing their instruments and singing together for many decades, although they are only nineteen, twenty and twenty four. They have been together for eleven years already despite their still tender ages.

"Nickel Creek" was released in March of 2000, and has already proven to be successful. "Reasons Why" (their first single) reached number one and stayed there for a whopping six weeks on the Americana Chart, while Country Music Television has "When You Come Back Down" in heavy rotation.