Punch Brothers

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A young gun of modern acoustic music, mandolinist Chris Thile returns to the Capital District with his new band the Punch Brothers for a 7 p.m. Sunday show at The Egg in Albany.
Now 26, Thiele has been a formidable music presence in bluegrass and its allied idioms for more than half his life. By his early teens, he was winning mandolin competitions and was soon teamed with sibling Sara and Sean Watkins in Nickel Creek.
From its roots in the insular world of bluegrass, the trio became one of the most popular acoustic bands ever, garnering the style’s top honors as well as multiple Grammy nominations and awards.
In 2001 it was named the Country Music Association’s “Vocal Group of the Year” and was recipient of its coveted “Horizon” award for best newcomer. To date, the group has sold more than two million albums.
Thiele was soon an in-demand session musician. His playing graces recent recordings by Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks.
Thiele also has six solo recordings to his name and has collaborated with the leading lights of folk, bluegrass and “new acoustic” music, including Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall and Bella Fleck.
For 2006’s “How to Grow a Woman from the Ground,” he drew from material honed during solo shows and jam sessions in his new hometown of New York City, a wildly diverse mix of traditional selections and covers tunes whose creators span nearly a century. Jimmie Rodgers’s “Brakeman’s Blues,” Gillian Welch’s “Wayside,” the Strokes’ “Heart in a Cage,” and the White Stripes’ “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” are intertwined in a seamless blend that remains at heart bluegrass no matter what the origin.
For this project, he also assembled an all-star lineup of Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Noam Pikelny (banjo) and Greg Garrison (bass), who became the Punch Brothers. Last year Thile and company were honored with a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance for “The Eleventh Reel.”
Their formal debut disc “Punch” will be out Feb. 26.
on Nonesuch Records.

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13 Responses to “Punch Brothers”

  1. Coriander says on March 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm :

    Since when are people afraid of getting punched by software developers…

  2. Jackie says on March 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm :

    :)

  3. Harmonie says on March 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pm :

    We need a tabloid subreddit to submit useless programming ‘news’ to.

  4. Avery says on March 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pm :

    I would accept criticism if it didn’t come from someone who didn’t know what the fuck they are talking about. And, in my experience, all the managers I have worked with are intellectually inferior to me and have little experience reading or writing code. So when I’m criticized, I consider the source.

  5. Sigmund says on March 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm :

    They got the colours wrong, too. Defeat and incompetence.

  6. Grier says on March 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm :

    what’s so shocking about it? M$ do nothing but imitate - I can’t think of an original M$ product… ever..?ok, wait - BASIC was sort of original-ish, I think?

  7. Lysette says on March 16th, 2008 at 5:11 pm :

    I fail to see in what way the Volta logo competes with Firefox.Nobody will ever hear about Volta apart from a handful of professional developers.If MS was in any way thinking about using that logo to ‘dilute’ the Firefox brand they would certainly not use it for something that obscure.

  8. Roddy says on March 16th, 2008 at 6:02 pm :

    These tips are like Socialization 101 for social retards.Who knew that saying “I don’t like how this part of your code works” is more tactful than saying “I don’t like how your code because you’re dumb and smell like twinkies”?!?

  9. Chanelle says on March 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pm :

    so is this.

  10. Edwina says on March 16th, 2008 at 7:43 pm :

    I wish Redditors had the capacitor for some original puns.

  11. Linnie says on March 16th, 2008 at 8:33 pm :

    Smeeeeeeeg Heeeeeeeed

  12. Shelton says on March 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm :

    I think it depends on who is doing the criticizing. I’ve had other coders tell me that my code isn’t good and x,y,z needs to be fixed. That type of criticism i’ll listen to.I’ve also had people who don’t know anything about coding try to make suggestions using new buzzwords they’ve overheard from people they know are technical. “I think we should write this application in Linux, It’s more secure.” I’ve actually had that said to me. No, I’m not kidding.That being said, you really do need criticism from non-techies for things like UI, so listen to them.