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Released
  
August 13, 2002

Label
  
Sugar Hill

Release date
  
13 August 2002

Genre
  
Progressive bluegrass

Length
  
49:58

Artist
  
Nickel Creek

Producer
  
Alison Krauss

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This Side (2002)
  
Why Should the Fire Die? (2005)

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album

Similar
  
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Nickel creek this side


This Side is the Grammy-winning fourth album by the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek, released on Sugar Hill in the summer of 2002. It gained some notoriety in indie rock circles due to the group's recording of a Pavement song, "Spit on a Stranger". Alison Krauss acted as a producer for the album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Smoothie Song" (instrumental) (Chris Thile) – 3:20
  2. "Spit on a Stranger" (Stephen Malkmus) – 2:34
  3. "Speak" (Sean Watkins) – 4:01
  4. "Hanging by a Thread" (Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick) – 4:06
  5. "I Should've Known Better" (Carrie Newcomer) – 4:27
  6. "This Side" (Watkins) – 3:33
  7. "Green and Gray" (Thile) – 3:36
  8. "Seven Wonders" (Watkins, David Puckett) – 4:10
  9. "House Carpenter" (Traditional; version of "The Daemon Lover") – 5:30
  10. "Beauty and the Mess" (Thile, Luke Bulla) – 2:52
  11. "Sabra Girl" (Andy Irvine) – 4:04
  12. "Young" (Thile) – 3:29
  13. "Brand New Sidewalk" (Thile) – 4:16
  14. "Smoothie Song" (Live) (Japan bonus track)

Nickel Creek

  • Chris Thile – Mandolin, Bouzouki, Guitar, Strings, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals
  • Sara Watkins – Fiddle, Ukulele, Guitar, Strings, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals
  • Sean Watkins – Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals

    • Other musicians

  • Byron House – Upright bass
  • Edgar Meyer – Upright bass
  • Robert Trujillo – Upright bass on "Smoothie Song" video

    • Songs

    1Smoothie Song3:20
    2Spit on a Stranger2:35
    3Speak4:01

    References

    This Side Wikipedia
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