Reasons Why: The Very Best (Sugar Hill SUG-CD 4022, 2006) is Nickel Creek's career retrospective, collecting highlights from all three studio albums alongside two previously unreleased tracks, paired with a DVD containing the band's complete music videos. Personnel across the compilation represents the core trio — Chris Thile (mandolin), Sara Watkins (fiddle, vocals), and Sean Watkins (guitar, vocals) — as they evolved through the progressive-acoustic territory of their Alison Krauss–produced years. The set arrived shortly after the band announced an indefinite hiatus, making it simultaneously a retrospective and a farewell document, providing a single-disc overview of the group's evolution from acoustic traditionalism to the genre-bending experiments of their final studio album Why Should the Fire Die?
Tracklist
- 1 The Lighthouse’s Tale 5:00
- 2 Out of the Woods alt version 2:52
- 3 When In Rome 4:16
- 4 Helena 4:41
- 5 Smoothie Song 3:20
- 6 Somebody More Like You 2:59
- 7 Reasons Why 4:08
- 8 Can’t Complain 5:31
- 9 I Should’ve Known Better 4:27
- 10 This Side 3:35
- 11 Jealous Of The Moon 4:40
- 12 When You Come Back Down 3:52
- 13 You Don’t Have to Move That Mountain alt version 3:51
- 14 The Fox alt version 2:30
