Watkins Family Hour | |
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Origin | Los Angeles, California |
Genres | Bluegrass music, folk music |
Years active | 2002 | –present
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Watkins Family Hour is a bluegrass musical collaborative led by siblings Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, who also form two-thirds of the Americana music group Nickel Creek. The group began in 2002 as a monthly, informal musical variety show with the Watkins siblings and their friends in the Los Angeles nightclub Largo. [1]
Their eponymous debut album, which consists entirely of covers, [2] was released on July 24, 2015, on Family Hour Records via Thirty Tigers, [3] and was produced by Sheldon Gomberg. [4] In addition to Sara and Sean Watkins, musicians who performed on this album include Fiona Apple, Lone Justice's Don Heffington, Benmont Tench, Greg Leisz, and Soul Coughing’s Sebastian Steinberg. [3] According to Metacritic, Watkins Family Hour received generally favorable reviews from critics; on the site, the album has a score of 76 out of 100, based on six reviews. [4]
Their second album Brother Sister was released on January 17, 2020, by Family Hour Records and Thirty Tigers, [5] and their third album Vol. II was released August 19, 2022, by Family Hour. [6] [7]