WPA / Works Progress Administration featuring Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Sean & Sara ...

Glen Phillips

. I live in Santa Barbara, the city of my birth, with my wife and three children, two chickens and a golden retriever. I released Mr. Lemons independently, as part of a decision to shift from the insanity of the record business to the manageability of a family business. My family and I embarked on a nine-month tour through Europe starting in September of 2006, living and traveling in a motor home. Much delicious food was cooked and consumed. Art and music was created. Fine friends were made. Mirth ensued. I was in a band called Toad the Wet Sprocket when I was a boy. We sold over three million records, had a handful of radio hits ...

Sara Watkins

You could say that Sara Watkins’ solo debut has been a lifetime in the making. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter and fiddle player spent nearly two decades—all of her teenage and young adult life—as one-third of Nickel Creek, the Grammy Award–winning acoustic trio that used contemporary bluegrass as a starting point for its no-genre-barred sound. Along the way, she’s hinted at her desire to do a project of her own and even organized some exploratory sessions in Los Angeles about six years ago. Now, with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, she is releasing her self-titled solo disc, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and produced by forme...