Nickel Creek is not a bluegrass act. That's why I really don't care for their music, it's really more folk/collegey pop with bluegrass influences. I DJ when they play here, and they won't let me play bluegrass or even honky tonk because they don't want to get typecast as a bluegrass band, which is smart because they're not. They're more into the Gillian Welch, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda thing. The guy can play the hell out of a mandolin, the acoustic guitarist also is great, and they don't have drums, but it's not bluegrass. That's why their crowd is so different from the old-school bluegrass shows. I bet a lot of Nickel Creek's fans don't even know who Del McCoury is.