So it is with Nickel Creek ... from "A Dotted Line" and their 2005 release "Why Should the Fire Die," both of which extend the sonic and structural conventions of the bluegrass-Americana genre ...

Why should the fire die? That’s the question Nickel Creek posed with the title of an album in 2005, after which the bluegrass trio ended a run that stretched back nearly two decades. The spark ...

Both to mainstream ears and those steeped in string music, what Nickel Creek ... bluegrass but for American roots music as a whole. By the time the group returned to the studio with A Dotted Line ...

After 34 years together, Nickel Creek is more of a family ... Of course, that means it’s chock-full of the band’s blend of traditional and progressive bluegrass. “When you’re writing ...

California-born bluegrass band Nickel Creek are one such band ... Not until 2014 did they reunite and release A Dotted Line, a portrayal of maturity festooned with joy and optimism through the ...