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"Smoothie Song" is a Grammy-nominated single by the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek from their second album This Side. In 2002, it was nominated a Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental. It reached #1 on the Billboard AAA Contemporary Tracks chart, and was the first instrumental track to reach #1 on any Billboard chart.
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The origin of name "Smoothie Song" comes from when Nickel Creek played at the Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. According to Sara Watkins, "We'd already played a few sets there over the weekend on this particular year and were in need of another new song. Chris [Thile] had the melody pretty much already written and taught it to us in the car on the way up to the festival site. After we performed the as yet untitled tune, the smoothie vendor (who's drinks we'd become fans of) brought us each smoothies. The crowd said we should name it the smoothie song and that's how it stuck."[1]
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- The song was written by Chris Thile.
- It is the only instrumental song to ever become a single by Nickel Creek.
- In the video, but not the recording, bass duties were taken over by Robert Trujillo, the bassist for Metallica.
- It was named at the Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
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