Track listing

1. "Smoothie Song" (instrumental
   Instrumental
   An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
   
   ) (Chris Thile
   Chris Thile
   Christopher Scott Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Antifogmatic...
   
   ) – 3:20
2. "Spit on a Stranger
   Spit on a Stranger
   "Spit on a Stranger" is a single by the indie-rock band Pavement, coming from their final record Terror Twilight.-CD Track listing:# Spit on a Stranger [Album Version] – 3:03# Harness Your Hopes – 3:26# Roll With the Wind – 3:17...
   
   " (Stephen Malkmus
   Stephen Malkmus
   Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...
   
   ) – 2:34
3. "Speak" (Sean Watkins
   Sean Watkins
   Sean Charles Watkins is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is a member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration.-Nickel Creek:...
   
   ) – 4:01
4. "Hanging by a Thread" (Gordon Kennedy
   Gordon Kennedy (musician)
   Gordon Kennedy is a multi Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer, world-class guitarist and visionary at the forefront of Nashville’s music community....
   
   , Wayne Kirkpatrick
   Wayne Kirkpatrick
   Wayne Kirkpatrick is an American singer/songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979....
   
   ) – 4:06
5. "I Should've Known Better" (Carrie Newcomer
   Carrie Newcomer
   Carrie Newcomer is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life and education:Carrie Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. She attended Goshen College and received a B.A...
   
   ) – 4:27
6. "This Side
   This Side (song)
   "This Side" was the first single by the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek from their second album, This Side. Sean Watkins takes vocal duties for "This Side".The song was written by Sean Watkins...
   
   " (Watkins) – 3:33
7. "Green and Gray" (Thile) – 3:36
8. "Seven Wonders" (Watkins, David Puckett) – 4:10
9. "House Carpenter" (Traditional
   Traditional music
   Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...
   
   ; version of "The Daemon Lover
   The Daemon Lover
   "The Daemon Lover", also known as "James Harris", "James Herries", or "The House Carpenter" is a popular English ballad. It tells the story of a man , who returns to a former lover after a very long absence, and finds her with a husband and a baby...
   
   ") – 5:30
10. "Beauty and the Mess" (Thile, Luke Bulla) – 2:52
11. "Sabra Girl" (Andy Irvine
    Andy Irvine (musician)
    Andrew Kennedy 'Andy' Irvine is a folk musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the popular band Planxty. He is an accomplished player of the mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, guitar-bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy....
    
    ) – 4:04
12. "Young" (Thile) – 3:29
13. "Brand New Sidewalk" (Thile) – 4:16
14. "Smoothie Song" (Live) (Japan bonus track)

Chart performance

Nickel Creek

• Chris Thile
  Chris Thile
  Christopher Scott Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Antifogmatic...
  
   - Mandolin, Bouzouki, Guitar, Strings, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals
• Sara Watkins
  Sara Watkins
  Sara Ullrika Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, which consisted of herself, her elder brother Sean, and mandolinist Chris Thile. As a band, they are notable for three wide-released albums:...
  
   - Fiddle, Ukulele, Guitar, Strings, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals
• Sean Watkins
  Sean Watkins
  Sean Charles Watkins is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is a member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration.-Nickel Creek:...
  
   - Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Harmony Vocals

Other musicians

• Byron House - Upright bass
• Edgar Meyer
  Edgar Meyer
  Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...
  
   - Upright bass
• Robert Trujillo
  Robert Trujillo
  Robert Trujillo is an American bassist who currently plays bass in Metallica. He has also played in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, and with Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne.-Career:...
  
   - Upright bass on "Smoothie Song" video

Credits

• Producer: Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
  
• Engineers: Gary Paczosa, Neal Cappellino, Jason Lehning, Tracy Martinson
• Assistant engineers: Eric Bickel, Rob Clark, Thomas Johnson
• Mixing: Gary Paczosa
• Surround mix: Gary Paczosa
• Mixing assistant: Eric Bickel
• Mastering: Don Cobb, Eric Conn, Robert Hadley, Doug Sax
• SACD
  SACD
  SACD, founded as Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques on 7 March 1829, is a French collecting society, undertaking collective rights management for authors...
  
  mastering: Don Cobb, Eric Conn

• Editing: Tracy Martinson
• Production assistants: Jennie Billo, Tasha Thomas
• Art direction: Wendy Stamberger
• Design: Wendy Stamberger
• Photography: John Chiasson
• Illustrations: Terry Hoff
• Assistant: Eric Bickel

External links

• This Side at Nickel Creek's official website, with sound samples
• Nickel Creek's New Side story at Rolling Stone