Sara Watkins’ Upcoming Album Welcomes Friends From Nickel Creek and I’m With Her
Sara Watkins, Photo: Jacob Boll
Sara Watkins of the Grammy-winning groups Nickel Creek and I’m With Her will release Under the Pepper Tree on March 26 via New West Records.
The 15-song set was produced by Tyler Chester (Sara Bareilles, Margaret Glaspy) and is the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2016 solo album Young In All The Wrong Ways.
Created with families in mind, Watkins recorded two new songs and also reimagined songs she loved as a child, such as “Pure Imagination” (Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory), The Beatles’ “Good Night,” and “Moon River.”
The project welcomes numerous guests, including her Nickel Creek bandmates Chris Thile and her brother Sean Watkins on “Blue Shadows on the Trail” (The Three Amigos), I’m With Her bandmates Sarah Jarosz & Aoife O’Donovan on “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (Roy Rogers & Sons of the Pioneers), Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes on “Blanket for a Sail” (Harry Nilsson), David Garza on “Beautiful Dreamer” (Roy Orbison), and Watkins now three-year old daughter on The Sound of Music’s “Edelweiss.”
Watkins hopes this album will impact young listeners in the same way the music from her childhood affected her. “I want this album to be a place of calm, imagination, and relief,” she says. “Some days are perfect and things are a dream and make you feel like a superhero. And some days are just… such a challenge. I feel like this record has a place in both of those days, and I really hope that these recordings find a place in kids’ hearts, and become as special as they are to me.”
Under the Pepper Tree Track Listing:
1. Pure Imagination
2. The Second Star to the Right
3. Blue Shadows on the Trail (featuring Nickel Creek)
4. Edelweiss
5. Moon River
6. Under the Pepper Tree
7. When You Wish Upon A Star
8. Night Singing
9. La La Lu
10. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (featuring I’m With Her)
11. Blanket for a Sail
12. Beautiful Dreamer
13. Stay Awake
14. You’ll Never Walk Alone
15. Good Night
