Who's Feeling Young Now?

Completed over three weeks at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, the record was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse). Who's Feeling Young Now? is the follow-up to 2010’s Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic.

Ten songs from Who's Feeling Young Now? were written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on ‘Hundred Dollars’ and ‘New York City’.

Additionally, the album contains the band’s interpre­tations of ‘Kid A’ by Radiohead and ‘Flippen’ by Swedish group Vasen.

Punch Brothers was formed in 2006 by mandolinist/singer Chris Thile with four other virtuosic musicians: fiddler Gabe Witcher, banjo player Noam Pikelny, bassist Paul Kowert, and guitarist Chris “Critter” Eldridge. Their first Nonesuch record, Punch, was released in 2008 and combined elements of the band’s many musical interests, including indie rock, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and classical music. In 2009 they all moved to New York City and began a regular, standing-room-only, residency at the Living Room, trying out new songs as well as inspired covers; these shows ultimately spawned Antifogmatic.

“Who's Feeling Young Now? is less evasive than Antifogmatic and Punch,” said Thile. “And I feel like part of that is us becoming more comfortable with who we are as a band, and me becoming more comfortable with who I am as a singer.”

Immediately after finishing their album in October, Punch Brothers joined Paul Simon for a month of U.S. dates, during which the band regularly accompanied Simon for his encores.

The tour capped off a busy year for the band and its members: in addition to year-round touring, Punch Brothers performed on Late Night with David Letterman with Steve Martin and were nominated for two Grammys.