Thile in The Washington Post
The Washington Post had a short piece about Chris Thile’s new CD, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, in it’s weekend edition. You can read it online here. It’s only a couple paragraphs but it’s great that Thile is garnering some attention for bluegrass music. After the phenomenal popularity of Nickel Creek, it’s encouraging to read comments like this for a more bluegrass oriented project.
These are terrific songs, and their rhythmic and narrative thrust focuses the leader’s talents as never before.
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As we have mentioned many times this past few months, the new CD from Chris Thile, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, is officially released today.
To help promote the CD, Sugar Hill Records is sponsoring a video contest, with an iPod Nano loaded with Chris' music as the Grand Prize.
Here's the...
We posted last week about the upcoming solo project from Chris Thile, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, which is really a band project, though solo in the sense of it being recorded and promoted outside of his work with Nickel Creek. We referenced Chris' MySpace page in that earlier post, and suggested...
AT&T's blue room has posted a set of online videos of Chris Thile and How To Grow A Band performing live in their studio.
Three songs from his How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD are included - Watch 'at Breakdown, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground and the title track - plus Song For A Young Queen...
The Denver Post has weighed in on the official debut of Chris Thile's Mandolin Concerto withthe Colorado Symphony on Thursday night (9/17).
Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic, was enthusiast about the piece, and hailed Thile as "up-and-coming classical composer with almost unlimited potential."
The...
Chris Thile and The Tensions Mountain Boys have announced a string of three dates at the fabled Station Inn in Nashville next month. They will be there September 21-23, starting at 9:00 p.m. (CT) each night, with an admission charge of $20.
Tickets will go on sale August 28, and can be purchased online...
Express, a blog belonging to the Washington Post, has a short article up about Chris Thile. They quote Chris on the topic of bluegrass tradition. Chris expresses his viewpoint in words similar to those he used in our recent GrassCast interview with him. Chris is obviously on a mission to let people know...
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Exactly how the “How To Grow A Woman From The Ground” project can be considered Bluegrass is beyond me. Furthermore, with the use of a certain 4-letter word on one the songs on this CD, I don’t want to associate it with Bluegrass music in any way!
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