Nickel Creek: '21st Of May,' Live On Soundcheck

Hear the entire session and interview: bit.ly/1eenPsW

Nickel Creek almost immediately wowed audiences when they burst onto the circuit in the early '90s. A trio of precocious child prodigies -- Chris Thile on mandolin and banjo, Sara Watkins on fiddle, and her brother Sean Watkins on guitar -- Nickel Creek boasted adventurous songs that melded elements of progressive bluegrass and country, classical and jazz, traditional roots and rock, performed with ecstatic virtuosity and youthful liveliness.

But after three delightful and acclaimed albums in the early 2000s, Thile and the Watkins each went their separate ways, pursuing massively successful solo careers and accolades. Now eight years after its last album, the trio has just released a new album, A Dotted Line. Ultimately, while A Dotted Line documents a more mature Nickel Creek than it once was, yet that joyfully rebellious spirit that so many of us fell for still shines through.

Watch Nickel Creek perform "21st Of May" live in the Soundcheck studio.