Song:Punch Bowl
Album:Punch
Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile formed Punch Brothers after his very popular group Nickel Creek split up in 2007. Punch Brothers has become one of the biggest concert draws on the roots music circuit. When Nickel Creek split up, Thile was also going through a divorce. He decided to get together with a bunch of his musician buddies to whine about relationships and maybe form a band. The other guys were session fiddle player Gabe Wichter, banjo player Noam Pikelny of Leftover Salmon, guitarist Chris Eldridge of The Infamous Stringdusters and bassist Greg Garrison of Leftover Salmon. At first Thile wasn't sure what kind of music he wanted to do. But after jamming, he decided on bluegrass. At first they were called The How To Grow A Band and then The Tensions Mountain Boys. But they settled on Punch Brothers based on the Mark Twain short story A Literary Nightmare. They signed with Nonesuch Records and the centerpiece of their 2008 CD Punch was Thile's four movement suite The Blind Leaving The Blind. Thile has said that the entire CD was written to deal with his divorce. The CD topped the Bluegrass Album chart and Punch Brothers went on a very successful tour. Greg Garrison was replaced by Paul Kowert after the tour. Their 2010 CD Antifogmatic also sold well and the Punch Brothers new CD Who's Feeling Young Now? will be released in February. Punch Brothers are also the subject of the 2011 documentary How To Grow A Band which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2011. So if you're a bluegrass or roots music fan and you like guys who are great musicians, check out Punch Brothers. Here's Punch Brothers performing Punch Bowl at Kent Stage in Kent, OH 2008.
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