Fiction Family

Fiction Family is a musical collaboration between Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins. The duo’s self-titled, full-length album was released on January 20, 2009.

According to Watkins, the band’s name comes from the fact that «Usually when two guys make a record together, it sounds cool to call them the ‘something brothers. But we’re not, so that’s how Fiction Family came to be.» Says Foreman, «They are two words that hold a lot of meaning for me. I think that much of who we are as a culture lean towards fiction. As for the family of it, you have the entire nation that’s kind of looking for family. That’s one of the reasons why I like the name. Also both of us come from sibling bands and this is not a sibling band, so this is kind of a fiction family of sort.»