Watkins, who first became known as the sultry female vocalist and multi-instrumentalist in Nickel Creek, became solo star earlier this year with a debut album produced by Jones. They first played together on the road in 2004 as members of Mutual Admiration Society. Watkins now spends many of her days on the road, splitting her gigs between solo events and gigs with her latest group project, the Works Progress Administration.
Update: Footage from her performance with Jones added
During her solo set at 1 p.m. today, Jones will join her onstage again, just as he last did joining her on the set of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in April. Around that time, Jones was hinting of a new project of his, something secretive that eventually became revealed to be Them Crooked Vultures.
On Wednesday night, a small crowd entered an Austin TV studio to witness Them Crooked Vultures' first performance in America since its debut show in August. Amid the studio audience, champion cyclist Lance Armstrong snapped cell phone pictures despite a prohibition on cameras inside. The next day, Armstrong wrote on Twitter, "Them Crooked Vultures put the hurt on me last night. Ouch.." The episode of "Austin City Limits" is to air on PBS early in the new year.
Them Crooked Vultures played at Stubb's BBQ last night and is scheduled to play an hour-long set beginning at 7:30 tonight.
Sara Watkins tweeted to me from Austin City Limits festival tonight.
ReplyDeleteFirst she tweeted that it sucked to be whatever band followed Them Crooked Vultures.
I think that band was Kings of Leon, with surprise onstage guest Eddie Vedder.
Anyway, I asked Sara how things went with John Paul Jones when he sat in on her solo set in the afternoon.
She replied, "So fun! Everything git better when he came up!"
I think "git" means "got" in twitterspeak.