Sara Watkins

Add Date: March 31

Artist: Sara Watkins

Album: Sara Watkins

Label: Nonesuch

Genre: Singer-songwriter, Alt-country, Folk

Comments: Nonesuch Records has signed singer/songwriter/fiddle player Sara Watkins, who is best known as a founding member of Nickel Creek. This record was produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones has help from "a wide range of colleagues and old friends" including Gillian Welch, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, and Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas. Sara Watkins wrote a lot of the tracks, but also does versions of songs by Jimmie Rodgers, Norman Blake and Tom Waits.

Overall these very pretty, pleasant, stripped-down numbers come off as very tender. I liked the opener "All this Time."