PCMH is pleased to announce Sara Watkins 04/30/09

Singer/songwriter/fiddle player Sara Watkins, who is best known as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, critically acclaimed, and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek releases her self-titled debut solo album on April 7, 2009.  The album was produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.

Sara Watkins features a wide range of colleagues and old friends, including alt-country duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; colleagues from the bluegrass world like Tim O’Brien, Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge,Ronnie McCoury, and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates Chris Thile and Sean Watkins. Already widely respected for her musical ability on the fiddle, Watkins’ skills as a vocalist and songwriter are highlighted on this solo project. She wrote or co-wrote eight of the 14 songs on the record, which also includes renditions of tracks by Jimmie Rodgers, Jon Brion, Norman Blake, and Tom Waits.