Sara Watkins [PA] (CD - 2009)

Personnel: Sara Watkins (vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, fiddle); Jon Brion (guitar, electric guitar); Chris Eldridge, Sean Watkins (guitar); David Rawlings, Gillian Welch (electric guitar, drums); Billy Cardine, Michael Witcher (dobro); Chris Thile (mandola); John Paul Jones (mandolin, piano, electric piano, organ); Ronnie McCoury (mandolin); Rayna Gellert (fiddle); Benmont Tench (piano); Pete Thomas (drums).

Audio Mixer: Dave Sinko.

Audio Remasterer: Eric Conn.

Recording information: Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN.

Photographers: Jeremy Cowart; John Peets.

SARA WATKINS is the debut solo album by the fiddler and singer from the bluegrass group Nickel Creek. Produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones and featuring guest appearances by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello and the Attractions' Pete Thomas, and several of her Nickel Creek bandmates, SARA WATKINS is a modern-day southern California country-rock album. Songs by Jimmie Rodgers, John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tom Waits, and Jon Brion sit alongside Watkins originals, all of them given arrangements that draw from vintage country, singer-songwriter pop, and alternative rock influences. Highlights include "Long Hot Summer Days" and "All This Time." minimize