Nickel Creek joins host Stephen Kallao

Nickel Creek make their long-awaited return with a new record called Celebrants. For their first release in nearly a decade, the Grammy-winning bluegrass band teamed up with Mike Elizondo, the bass playing legend who was a foundation for hip-hop classics by Eminem and 50 Cent. We’ll hear about that collaboration, and about the album’s themes of human connection, in a conversation with Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile and Sara Watkins. Plus, the band performs live.

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*Bruce Springsteen “Nightshift” Only The Strong Survive
Nickel Creek “Celebrants” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
Nickel Creek “Strangers” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
Nickel Creek “Where The Long Line Leads” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
Nickel Creek “Holding Pattern” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
Lucinda Williams “Six Blocks Away” Sweet Old World
The Rolling Stones “Dead Flowers” Sticky Fingers
Nick Lowe “So It Goes” Pure Pop For Now People
Say She She “Trouble” Prism
R.E.M “Losing My Religion” Out Of Time
Phish “The Connection” Undermind

Hour Two
*Emmylou Harris “Wrecking Ball” Wrecking Ball
Hozier “Eat Your Young” Eat Your Young EP
Broken Bells “The High Road” Broken Bells
Blondshell “Joiner” Blondshell
Alice In Chains “No Excuses” Jar Of Flies
Sylvan Esso “Radio” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
James “Say Something” Recorded Live For The World Cafe
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “I Need Never Get Old” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Bailen “Call It Like It Is” Tired Hearts
Rissi Palmer & Miko Marks “Still Here” single
B.B King “The Thrill Is Gone” Completely Well
The National “New Order T-Shirt” First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
Death Cab For Cutie “No Sunlight” Narrow Stairs

*Optional Song