Austin City Limits

-"Austin City Limits" presents music protg Jacob Collier... - Every time I hear you calling my name All I think about is you Austin City Limits!

- I don't think I'm ever getting over you -...and the triumphant return of Nickel Creek.

- ...big time We're gonna have a big time - Where the long line leads - We only have a short time So make it a big one - In the flames where we go to show off and be showed Like it isn't what we're doing but how many other people know -Austin City Limits celebrates 50 years.

-This is Austin City Limits.

-Thank you so much, everybody!

[ Audience chanting indistinctly ] -Austin City Limits!

Alright, Austin, Texas.

-One, two, three, rock!

-Alright, alright, alright.

Thank you very much.

-50 years of Austin City Limits!

-Celebrating 50 years of great music, it's "Austin City Limits."

[ Cheers and applause ] -Now one of the most gifted artists of modern times, Jacob Collier.

[ "All I Need" plays ] - Hi I love the way that I feel when you put your arms over me - There must be something I could say To make you stay, baby - Oh, hi - Hello - I love the way that you get in the groove When you walk with me Only me, hey 'Cause every time I think about it Can't stop thinking about it You are all I need, oh - All I need - Hi I love thinking of All the kisses you could give me if I came around Oh, baby - There must be something I could say To make you stay, baby - Oh, hi I love the illumination you bring To all the ordinary things I found Oh, baby, yeah Ooh - 'Cause every time I think about it Can't stop thinking about it - 'Cause you are all I need -Sing it!

- All I need -Hey!

So I'll be singing in the starbright Underneath the moonlight, oh, oh 'Cause I love your smile and it makes me feel alright Alright I will sing it to the sun You will always be the one for me Let your love shine down Let your love shine down - Ooh 'Cause every time I think about it Can't stop thinking about it -Hey!

- 'Cause you are all I need -Sing it!

- All I need So I'll be singing in the starbright Underneath the moonlight, oh, oh, no 'Cause I love your smile and it makes me feel alright Alright, I will sing it to the sun You will always be the one for me Let your love shine down Let your love shine down - Let your love - Let your love shine down - Do you really wanna call my name?

Austin!

- When you leave me, I'm all forlorn When it's time for you to go alone to your home You got me calling out -Sing it!

You are all I need - When you leave me, I'm all forlorn When it's time for you to go alone to your home What can I do without you?

-Sing it to me!

- You're all I need - When you leave me, I'm all forlorn When it's time for you to go alone to your home What will I do without you?

-Go!

- You're all I need - When you leave me, I'm all forlorn When it's time for you to go alone to your home What can I do without you?

-Sing it!

- You're all I need - When you leave me, I'm all forlorn When it's time for you to go alone to your home You got me callin' out - You're all I need -Thank you, Austin City Limits!

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you very much.

[ "Wherever I Go" plays ] - You tell me you love me But you got me feelin' kinda lonely I never thought that I'd see the day You tell me you got me Said you'd always be my one and only I'm feelin' like you're driftin' away - I'm holdin' out for somethin' I'm comin' up with nothin' I'm losin' hope that ever we can start again Been holdin' us together Through many kinds of weather Said you'd never hurt me, but I'm broken-hearted Lovin' you, holdin' you Feelin' that this time I'm lettin' you go End of the road, but I Know you'll be with me wherever I go - You tell me you love me And I know we said forever But tomorrow's feelin' so far away I know that you want me But we both know it's over With a little bit of time, it'll all be okay - There's so much information I'm tired of education It's time for reformation, we could start again Been holdin' us together Through many kinds of weather Said you'd never hurt me, now I'm broken-hearted Lovin' you, holdin' you - Oh, baby - Feelin' that this time I'm lettin' you go - This time I'm lettin' you go - End of the road, but I - Oh - Know you'll be with me wherever I go - I know, but it hurts so bad Hurts so bad, hurts so bad - I know, but it hurts so bad It hurts so bad, it hurts so bad like Ah, oh, yeah Ah, ah, ah Ah, oh, yeah Oh, 'cause you're with me, you're with me, you're with me Wherever I go - Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah - With me wherever I go - Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah - With me wherever I go - Ooh, hoo, ohh - With me wherever I go [ Cheers and applause ] -Alita Moses on the vocals, everybody!

[ Cheers and applause ] Ooh Ooh, ohh Ooh, ohh, ohh Ahh When you're weary Feelin' small Small And tears Are in Your eyes I will dry them all All I am on your side When times get tough And friends Just can't Be found Like a bridge Over troubled water I will Lay me down Like a bridge Over troubled water I I will lay me Down Down Down Down When you're Down and out When you're on the street Yeah When evening falls So hard I will comfort you I'll Take your part When times get tough And Pain is all All around Like a bridge over Troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over Troubled water I I will lay me Lay me Down Ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh Down Lay Down Down Ooh [ Cheers and applause ] Sail on Silver girl Sail on by Your time Has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they Shine Oh Oh, if you need a friend You need a friend I'm sailing Right behind Oh Like a bridge Over troubled Troubled water I will lay me down Down, down Lay Lay me down Lay me Lay Lay me Lay me, lay me, lay me Lay, lay, lay me, lay me Down Lay Lay Lay me down Lay me, lay me Lay me Down [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continue ] [ "Over You" plays ] - I don't think I'll ever get over you 'Cause you're all I think about I don't think I'll ever get over lovin' you This is my light I'm gonna let it shine I could be yours, I know you could be mine I've been lookin' up when I'm feelin' down Somehow I know that I'm gonna be alright This lovin' gon' take me so far Up in the sky gonna shine like a star When I'm feelin' blue, then I think of you This time I know that I'm gonna be alright - You got everything I need and more Such a feeling and I can't ignore So put your arms around me, let me take you to the skies I'm never gettin' over you Sing it!

- I don't think I'll ever get over you 'Cause you're all I think about I don't think I'll ever get over you 'Cause you're all I think about Every time I hear you calling my name All I think about is you -Sing it!

- I don't think I'm ever getting over you I don't think I'm ever getting over you -[ Singing in Korean ] [Singing in Korean] rewrite [ Singing in Korean ] [Singing in Korean] dreams come true [Singing in Korean] I'll ever get over you -Sing it!

- I don't think I'll ever get over you 'Cause you're all I think about I don't think I'll ever get over you 'Cause you're all I think about Every time I hear you calling my name All I think about is you -Austin City Limits!

- I don't think I'm ever getting over you I don't think I'm ever getting over you Over Over you Over I don't think I'm ever getting over you -Sing it!

- Over - Over - Over - Over you - Over -Hey!

Sing it!

I don't think I'm ever getting over you, go - Over - Sing "over" - Over - Whoa-oh, whoa Go!

Yeah!

- Over - I said I don't think I'm ever getting over you - All night - Over you - All night - Whoo-ooh - I don't think I'm ever getting [ Cheers and applause ] - Gon' take this raindrop Down to the sea, whoa It will wash my Fears away And when I wake up I'll see you smiling You are my ocean Rain down on me -Austin City Limits!

[ Cheers and applause ] How y'all feeling tonight?

Tell me, are you ready to party?

[ Cheers and applause ] Are you ready to party?

[ Cheers and applause ] Never been the one for backing down I keep it steady, ready, if somebody at me now Well, life is funny So sometimes you got to act a clown But one thing about a blessing, it come back around Ask around, I'm known by over half the town And they rootin' for a kid like me I was once at home all alone making songs In the image of a person that I just might be So now I feel free, tell me what's next Will it go right if I turn left?

If I'm really taking flight, can we cop a little jet?

There's so much I wanna see and so much I'm gonna get Gotta keep my stride with a pepped-up step I'ma be just fine, you can make that bet Everything's on time 'cause it's all concept Live a carefree life, ain't got one regret, nah - Ohh Get up on your feet, come on, get up on your feet Let's go, ohh Get up on your feet, come on, get up on your feet -Ladies and gentlemen, bringing to the stage, the one and only Kimbra!

[ Cheers and applause ] - There's a pressing question on your lips, on your hips On your lips, you got some kind of question - Like you got something to say?

Ha-ha-ha - It's a question I could answer with some With some kiss, what-a-do - Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba, whoo - There's a kind of magic in your smile, in your smile In your smile, I found some kind of magic Ow!

Kinda thing I want to stay a while, stay a while What-a-do - Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba-ba, ba - If there's a thing you wanna get right Then now's the time to get that funky feeling right If there's a thing, ah, you wanna get right Then get the boogie in your bones all through the night Play it, boy!

- Now I got this feeling in my - Be my rush, be my crush, be my fantasy Get my blush, feel my touch, baby, you can see Now's the time to get that funky feeling on me So use it up, wear it out, use it up, wear it out, oh Now I got this feeling in my -Everybody give it up for Jacob Collier!

[ Cheers and applause ] - Right now 'Cause I've been sleeping on my dreams, ah And I can't remember what I mean to you And everything is what it seems, ah-ah, ah-ah I've been sleeping on my dreams, ah-ah I've been sleeping on my dreams Ohh Ohh Ohh - Gon' take this raindrop - Ohh - Hey, sing get up on your feet Come on, sing get up on your feet Everybody, sing it!

- Gon' take this raindrop - Ohh -Whoa!

Go!

Sing get up on your feet, yeah, get up on your feet - Gon' take this rainrop, raindrop - Sing get up on your feet, get up on your feet - Gon' take this raindrop, raindrop - Get up on your feet, get up on your feet - Ooh Ahh Ahhh Ahhhh Ooh Ahh Ahhh Ahhhhh [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] -We love you, Austin City Limits!

Have a wonderful rest of your night.

Thank you ever so much!

See you next time.

Goodnight.

[ Cheers and applause ] I think sound is one of the mediums I love the most.

I also really enjoy using words and speaking and writing all sorts of things, but there's just something about music, man.

It's like it's -- it's un... sort of, yeah, indisputable.

You can't look away from its power.

And it because it's not words or even images, it's able to speak to everybody, in a sense.

It also runs in my family, so my mom was an incredible concert violinist and conductor, my two little sisters also sing and play.

And so it just felt very natural to me to fall into it as a way of expressing how I see the world, in a sense.

-Next, back together after nine years, the Grammy Award-winning trio Nickel Creek.

[ "Where the Long Line Leads" plays ] - Well, the line was so long I had to see where it led myself Pretty sure that I could feel What the think pieces said they felt At least enough to follow the night's conversation At a party full of fellow wanna-be sensations - Saying that's what's going on And if you don't wanna be left behind - Be the next jam pumping In the background of everybody's grind Streaming out of the windows of whatever we're driving So that when we show up It sounds more like we're arriving at the big time We wanna have a big time We're gonna have a big time Where the long line leads - We only have a short time So make it a big one, ooh - And instead of the list you'll be on the marquee Smoke rising from the fire where the long line leads Well, sign me up and tell me Every last thing I'm gonna need to change So no think piece can feel that I was ever any other way And when they say I've hit my stride I'll be ready to strut Which foot you think'll look best in front of the other?

- Dance, dancing up a hill To houses you can see from miles around - Sure a quake will probably take 'em But we chance it to impress this town To become one of the angels who have earned their wings - Flapping madly so they don't become The last big thing at the big time We wanna have a big time We're gonna have a big time - Where the long line leads - We only have a short time So make it a big one, ooh - In the flames where we go to show off and be showed Like it isn't what we're doing - But how many other people know - I'm gonna hit the big time And when I hit the big time [ Cheers and applause ] Y'all are gonna have a big time - Where the long line leads - Now it might be a short time But it's gonna be a big one Gonna shake ya like the Big One - We're having us a big time And we're gonna have a big time Showing everyone our big times - On our little feeds - We only have a short time So we're making it a big one, ooh, ooh - 'Til none of us have waited in a line so long Or so loudly told so many that's what's going on Or so quietly wondered why we didn't feel the heat Smoke rising from the ashes where the long line leads Hee, hee, hee [ Cheers and applause ] -It means so much to us that you're here.

Our fourth... Our fourth taping of "Austin City Limits."

-Can you believe it?

-Who'd have thunk?

[ Cheers and applause ] From us to you, here's "Going Out..." XOXO.

Love, Nickel Creek.

We're so glad you're here.

[ "Going Out..." plays ] Sing it!

- Ahh - Ahhh Ahh Ahh Ahhh, ahh - Ahhhh - Ahh Ahh, ahh, ahh Ahh, ahh Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh Ahhhhh [ "Celebrants" plays ] - My God, it's good to see you Right here in the flesh Where we can turn the stuff we need to Get off of our chests Into something we can sing through - Something we can sing through - The work that lies ahead - As one beleaguered people A camel being threaded Through whichever blessed needle Before we forget This place was our cathedral These strangers were our friends - Sing ho!

for the gatherings We took them for granted then Didn't we, O fellow celebrants Ah, but fool us once, right?

- Ho!

for the gatherings For having what we had again Now that we know, fellow celebrants What the hell it meant - It's more than good to see you It might be the cure The opportunity to be who We played like we were To be echoes that ring truer Than the shouts before - That was me preaching communion Even as I prayed for space 'Til it was granted in such profusion That I've about lost my taste for it And saying what I'm doing While what I'm really doing Keeps me from doing what I say - Sing ho!

for the gatherings We took them for granted then Didn't we, O fellow celebrants - Ah, but fool us once, right?

- Ho!

for the gatherings For having what we had again Now that we know, fellow celebrants What the hell it meant Ohh, ohh, ohh - Damned if we let the clock tell us when it's time for bed 'Cause it'll take a couple cocktails Just to pick up the threads We'd given up for lost 'til - Given up for lost 'til - The world finally stopped ending - Yes, only Once we've woven them together will We sleep like the blessed having given back the devil Satisfied that heaven's always been in this cathedral It's always been in this cathedral - In this cathedral Oh, heaven's always been in this cathedral That we all Rebuild nightly together [ Cheers and applause ] -There are a lot of songs about the beginning of a relationship.

-I love you.

You're perfect.

Let's do this right now.

-Right now.

All of that stuff.

And then there are, of course, the most amount of songs about the end of a relationship.

-Turns out I hate you... [ Laughs ] ...and you've ruined my life, and I'm gonna write three records about it right quick.

[ Laughter ] ...is a thing that you could do.

-Hypothetically.

[ Laughter ] But we would like to address the relationship part of relationships, where you're in there dealing with all the stuff and living the life and all that beautiful monotony that -- Which I say with a full heart.

There's, you know, all that beauty.

And then we also get to know exactly how to press the buttons of our beloved and truly show them our most petty selves.

[ Laughter ] So we're gonna celebrate that for about three minutes here.

[ Cheers and applause ] Oh, you got a mouth on you, baby You dish it out with a measure of pride Yeah, God help 'em if they cross one of your lines I don't need you to re-draw yourself, honey I don't need you to pretend or deny But I would love it if you just once let it slide My least favorite place to argue Is the museum of art You always seem To linger by The pieces I hate I'm on your side of this, honey And I'm on the other side of who caused you pain But you let 'em have it while you're talking at my face Just what are we fighting for, baby?

What are we trying to cure with all of this heat?

You and I decided to be family My least favorite place to argue - Is your childhood bedroom - Your parents on the other side Of the thinnest wall These are the thinnest walls - They're not listening, baby Not a one of them is listening, baby - You've burned down the hellfire, honey Cursed the halos chasing eternity Tell me you don't notice heaven missing Tell me you don't notice heaven missing [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Strangers" plays ] - It's been too long, stranger - It's been too long, stranger - Guess even hard times fly - Guess even hard times fly - And leave us speechless - Leave us speechless - In the darkness Before the dawn - Are you hanging in there?

- How about this weather?

- Are the kids alright?

- Remember that one time - Before every sentence - Felt like a sentence - To life with old friends Droning on - Where's the get Where's the get in being together?

- Did we forget Did we forget or - Is this where I oughta be?

- Where's the get Where's the get in being together?

- Time has changed the view - When we forget Are we to gather, there's no more to get In this together - When we forget - Are we to gather, there's no more to get In this together This is where I wanna be Time has changed the view - It's been too long, stranger - It's been too long, stranger - I guess the well's run dry - Has the well run dry?

- And we've been missing - What are we missing?

- Absolutely nothing - Is there nothing?

- But a memory - About that memory - To move beyond - To build upon - Where's the get Where's the get in being together?

When we forget Should we remember - This is where I wanna be - Where's the get?

Where's the get in being together?

- Though time has changed the view - When we forget Are we to gather, there's no more to get - In this together - You came here because of me - No more to get Only to give into being together - And I'm me because of you - When I forget, won't you help me remember?

- As we drone on - As we drone on Past the break of dawn - Hit rock bottom - Of that dry well - And get to shoveling - Fellow stranger - We're our own water - And we've been too long - Too long coming - To be gone [ Cheers and applause ] -A stranger to no one, playing the guitar over there and singing that is my brother, Sean Watkins.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ "Holding Pattern" plays ] - Washing my hands through the night Can't sleep for the sirens Screaming one man's freedom's Another's fever that keeps rising Along with this sneak-attack sun, but I promise, hon I can make the coffee strong enough to get us to the wine In a holding pattern Remembering when we could land in any old weather Singing nothing's so wrong That the right song can't make it better But when will the aerosols fly through the stage lights Towards the front row of my next audience, I wonder In a holding pattern Circling around Won't ya hold me, darlin' 'Til the wheels touch down?

Here in your arms, a chorus of alarms sounding like vespers Your lips to my ears Don't forget we're alone in this together Glory to any true love as it once was As it is now and just might have to be forever In a holding pattern Circling around Hold me and I'll hold you, darlin' 'Til the wheels touch down We're in a holding pattern So hold me, darlin' While the world burns down [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continue ] [ Cheers and applause continue ] [ Cheers and applause fade ] -We deliberately wanted all the songs to kind of happen from the ground up together.

The way we've done it in the past, which is we each bring songs that we've finished and we kind of either say yes or no, or you finished the song, change it.

This time, it was like they're all from the ground up.

Like, varying levels of -- of progression.

Doing it that way enabled us to do a lot of cross-pollination, so there's a lot of themes that appear in songs, musical and lyrical, that are spread across the record to other songs.

If you have songs that are already done, you can't really do that.

But when you start from ground up, you can really get granular with all that, and that was really fun for us.

I think it's something we've always wanted to do, but we just never had time.

-Spontaneity when you're writing is the spark that everyone gets excited about.

That's the creation process, right?

And when Sean starts playing, like, a guitar part, and then immediately, like, Chris starts playing some rhythmic thing, and I start playing something, like, that's a spontaneous spark.

So we -- we hold onto that, and then we see how we can develop it in a way that -- that we can use to say what we want to say or look into what that feeling is that it gives us and... and see if that resonates with us, that feeling, and then we can develop it from there.

-And see if it sheds light on another spark that's pre-existing, but, you know, like, kind of flamed out.

Like, very cool, but, like, just sitting there, didn't immediately suggest further development.

But all of a sudden, this new idea that was, you know, hatched in a completely unrelated setting you realize all of a sudden, "Oh."

Boom!

-Yeah.

-Put those suckers together.

You know, things that might've seemed out of left field when they're first presented to you, they start to get interwoven by the end of the record.

[ Cheers and applause ]