#chris thile

[lat-north]

rare gully person photo study :] exactly who you think it is

[desire-mona]

so glad my celebrity blorbos arent all that popular because if chris thile or god forbid ROBERT SEAN LEONARD were just a bit more famous theyd get their asses on wired. and i cannot have that

[march32nd]

GIYS GUYS GUYS GUST GUYS GUYS IM LITSRALLY. IN CHOIR RIGHT NOW BUT BUT BUT ONE IF THE. THE CHOIR DIRECTOR JUST ANNOUNCED THE REPERTOIRE FOR NEXT SEMESTER AND IT IS INCLUDINGGGGGG INCLUDING CHRIS THILE HERE AND HEAVEN???????????? LITERALLY UNNATURALLY HYPE LITERALLY BOUNCING IN MY SEAT LITERALLY SHAKY BOUNCY HANDS OH MY GODDDDDDD AND THERE'S AN ALTO SOLO I AM GONNA TRY OUT FPR OH MY GOD I AM SO ABNORMAL ABOUT THIS OG MY GOD

@desire-mona @anhonest-puck LOOK LOOK LOOK. LOOK

[yellow-yellow-jacket]

ok but does your favorite band have a silly lil guy whose instrument is comically small compared to him

[nathancone]

Pretty hip stuff, man. I miss the old "Prairie Home/Live From Here" program on public radio.

[cult-rangoons]

im back. whats ur fav song off thanks for listening and why

FALSETTO. Thanks For Listening is a VERY CLOSE SECOND. All my recent dives into Chris Thile were sparked from seeing them live for the first time in New Orleans earlier this month. (great city i love it very much)

My FULL listen through of TFL is extremely recent. I started one earlier but i wasnt able to finish it. It wasnt until i heard Falsetto come on from shuffle in the car with someone who also listens, THAT ONE PART came on and i audibly said “holy shit”. binged the song for a while after. Then finally listened to the entirety in order. Seeing your posts about it and then hearing it myself gave me a real “oh my god. i get it” experience. Falsetto is just cozy to me. And i boogie to it. The lyrics “everything is going great you should be super psyched ^_^” make me feel nice

AND IK THIS ISNT WHAT YOU ASKED BUT. Deceiver, (song specifically) is my fave Chris Thile song ever. Reminds me of one of my characters a whole lot. And Icarus Smicarus is my favorite Punch Brothers song. Destination remains my favorite Nickel Creek song due to very sentimental and nostalgic reasons

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy birthday, Chris Thile!

[thekylemeredith]

“Writing songs is like a negotiation.”

Chris Thile and Punch Brothers join me to talk about crafting genre-defying music, chasing musical transcendence, and that time they accidentally wrote a hit—because sometimes, genius sneaks up on you.

Hit 👍 if Rye Whiskey is still a jam, ❤️ if Chris Thile is a mandolin god, 🥰 if their genre-blending genius blows your mind, or share if you think Punch Brothers are one of the best bands making music today.

#PunchBrothers #RyeWhiskey #ChrisThile #ProgressiveBluegrass

[kosmik-signals]

Nickel Creek - Smoothie Song

[desire-mona]

MY THANKS FOR LISTENING CD CAME IN!!!!!!!!!! scans of the booklet (it has official lyrics which are near impossible to find online) under cut :3

im literally so fucking happy chris thile i love youuuuu

[krispyweiss]

The Punch Brothers at Southern Theatre; Columbus, Ohio; June 11, 2025

Chris Thile ran on stage, kicked his heels in the air and began speaking of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boy who had died earlier June 11 and whose music, the Punch Brother said, “changed my life.”

“If impact isn’t proof of existence, I don’t know what is,” Thile said. “He’s here forever.”

With that, Thile, flanked by fiddler Brittany Haas, guitarist Chris Eldridge and banjoist Noam Pikelny at a shared mic, played “Surf’s Up” in Wilson’s honor, recreating the song’s five-part vocal harmonies and intricate music while bassist Paul Kowert chimed in from the back on a microphone of his own.

It was a unique ending to a unique Punch Brothers show that had begun two hours earlier when Thile ran on to the Southern Theatre stage, kicked the heels of his white shoes in the air and launched the show with the timely ballad “This is the Song (Good Luck).”

I said good luck, good luck, good luck/these are tough times/but we'll get by/good luck, the Punches sung to - and with - an otherwise-pin-drop-silent audience that filled two-thirds of the Columbus, Ohio, theater’s 900 seats.

Though they exploded in rapture between songs, the big-eared concertgoers benefitted themselves and the band, as the balky mic that served as the only amplification and riddled the first 50 minutes with low volume, eventually crapped out altogether. This left the Brothers to come to the lip of the stage to perform intimate renditions of “My Oh My” and “All Ashore” with the audience singing along and Thile asking if it sounded OK.

“It could be louder!,” a woman in the second balcony shouted.

“It can’t - that’s the problem,” Thile shouted back before the band took an impromptu, 10-minute break to address the issue.

Once resolved, Thile ran on stage, kicked his heels in the air and, with the sound hugely improved, rocketed the band into the unrecorded “Saturn, Pogo Ball of the Gods.” Esoteric even by the Punch Brothers’ standards, it found Thile knocking on the body of his mandolin, Kowert thrumming his bass near the headstock and Haas slapping her leg to create the atmospheric soundscape.

The Southern’s acoustics made such experimentation possible, and audible, something Thile marveled at while lamenting the band hadn’t played there since 2019. On a stage as simple as the music was complex, with only Persian rugs and three LED light bars adding to the ambiance, the Punch Brothers’ two-hour performance found them spanning their career, playing music both rambunctious (“Rye Whiskey”) and somber (“Julep”) while never allowing things to get too serious.

As the gig unfolded, the dark-suited Pikelny acted as comic foil, narrating faux commercials for the Green Grass Ethical Rodeo and Bad News Bearers when not picking his banjo. Thile, meanwhile, hopped about the stage like a rabbit on amphetamines, Eldridge played and sung in support, Haas sawed on her fiddle with a red flower on the headstock and Kowert, sporting a tie, but the only male in the band without a jacket, busied himself playing the bottom end when he wasn’t bowing his instrument.

The Punch Brothers work hard. They play harder.

Grade card: The Punch Brothers at Southern Theatre - 6/11/25 - A-

6/12/25

[bluemakesgifs]

Chris Thile and his dog Skittles, posted to Noam Pikelny’s Instagram stories on February 20th, 2025.

“The real magic happens when he finally puts the mandolin down. Happy Birthday @christhile !”

[yellow-yellow-jacket]

deceiver by chris thile. the album of ever.