Years ago, Jason Isbell and Kacey Musgraves' music may never have made it past the country gatekeepers. Nickel Creek helped clear space for them. Its ground-breaking album in 2000 helped Americana music become the diverse and layered genre it is today.
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on the album opened with the line,"Is this the future of bluegrass?" In that story, a 19-year-old Thile shares his omnivorous outlook:"My tastes keep expanding, to everything. Of course, the classical thing lately, a lot of Celtic music, a lot of jazz music." Sean Watkins adds,"We're rooted in bluegrass because we started in it. But we're branching out into all different areas. I've been trying jazz more, and we do some more real progressive-type stuff ...
called the band"the Destiny's Child of the genre," a comparison that sounds less ridiculous when you consider how the latter's kaleidoscopic vision of pop-tinged R&B helped broaden the borders of a form with deep roots. Near the end of that year came a sign that if string music was going to make a popular comeback, it wouldn't all be on the young band's shoulders. The landmark soundtrack album from, released in December 2000, gave roots music a vivid new presence in American culture — introducing a wide audience both to the genre's history and to contemporary stars like Krauss, whose version of"" features prominently in the film.
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