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by: Bela Fleck
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Released: 1999-06-22

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Title Tracks for The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2
  • 1. Blue Mountain Hop
  • 2. Buffalo Nickel
  • 3. When Joy Kills Sorrow
  • 4. Spanish Point
  • 5. Polka on the Banjo
  • 6. Clarinet Polka
  • 7. The Over Grown Waltz
  • 8. Ode to Earl
  • 9. Home Sweet Home
  • 10. Valley of the Rogue
  • 11. Plunky's Lament
  • 12. Maura On A Bicycle, Stout And Molasses, Way Back When
  • 13. Dark Circles
  • 14. Old Jellico, Puddle Jumper, Dead Man's Hill
  • 15. Katmandu
  • 16. Do You Have Room?
  • 17. Foggy Mountain Special
  • 18. Major Honker
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Media Type: CD
Artist: FLECK,BELA
Title: VOL. 2-TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC
Street Release Date: 06/22/1999
Domestic
Genre: BLUEGRASS
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
In a jaw-dropping return to his roots, banjoist Béla Fleck led a stellar lineup (Jerry Douglas, Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice, and Sam Bush, to name a few) through one of his finest albums. With incredible musicianship and a smidgen of Fleck's genre-hopping personality ("Polka On The Banjo"), The Bluegrass Sessions is fun, nostalgic, and inspiring. --Jason Verlinde
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Béla Fleck, the banjo-wizard leader of the fringe-jazz quartet the Flecktones, returns to more-bluegrass-oriented concerns with this 18-song outing, a complement to 1988's Drive and a more-traditional follow-up to 1995's fusion-leaning Tales from the Acoustic Planet. Most of these songs are instrumentals boasting Drive's core group of Sam Bush on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Tony Rice on guitar, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, and bassist Mark Schatz; they're augmented in spots by fine guest players such as Vassar Clements, John Hartford, and the incomparable banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs. Fleck's spidery, tasteful plucking style lends originals like "Major Honker" and "Katmandu" an ever-so-slightly offbeat air, while he gives classics like Scruggs's "Foggy Mountain Special" and "Polka on the Banjo" traditional readings that wouldn't be out of place at the Opry. Flecktones fans will find much to like in Fleck's rootsy playing, and so will bluegrass purists. --Gregory McNamee
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The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2
  • Audio CD: 0 pages (1999-06-22)
  • Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
  • Label: Warner Bros / Wea
  • Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
  • Sales Rank in Music: #15490
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Make Room In Your Heart For the 5-String Banjo, March 31, 2000
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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)
This album is a joy from start to finish. As much as I enjoy the innovative work Bela Fleck has done in the past decade with the Flecktones and pushing the boundaries for the banjo as a lead instrument outside the context of bluegrass music, I have always had a passion for straight ahead bluegrass music. Over the past twenty-plus years, Fleck as earned the right to be mentioned in the same company as Earl Scruggs, J.D. Crowe and Tony Trischka as a pioneer of the banjo. Beginning with his formative years alongside mandolinist Jack Tottle in Tasty Licks to joining Sam Bush and John Cowan in the Newgrass Revival, Fleck has showed impeccable taste in his playing.

On The Bluegrass Sessions, Fleck has collected a virtual Who's Who of bluegrass superstars: Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush and a guest performance by Scruggs himself. But don't be misled by the album title. There are a only a handful of songs that might qualify as traditional bluegrass--"Blue Mountain...Read more

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The king of phrases, September 2, 1999
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D. Earls (Kingsville, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)
I haven't missed a Bela in nearly 10 years now. I'm struck by the studied simplicity of Fleck's recordings. They sound just down-home simple until you begin to listen closely. Then you hear things that aren't so simple.

First, of course, is what you don't hear. You don't hear a single missed note, an unsubtle nuance, a line without shape. Unlike so much of post newgrass where speed is king, Fleck's recordings emphasize each musician's talents at phrasing. The masters of bluegrass phrasing are here: Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Vasser Clements, and, of course, Bela. Tony Rice reminds us why you don't need percussion in true bluegrass.

Second, you appreciate how intricately worked out these little pieces are. Take _When Joy Kills Sorrow_, for example. You have a drone, one-note bowed upright bass in the exposition (from the 12th century), you have chromatic modulations (jazz) which always resolve on the dominant or tonic (Baroque), and you get that canon (I...Read more

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Bela's best, November 23, 2000
This review is from: The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)
This is the one of the finest albums Bela Fleck has released in a long time ("Live Art" being the other finest in recent memory.)

First of all, it boasts an amazing guest roster including: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tony Rice, Mark Schatz, Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, Tim O'Brien, Ricky Skaggs & more!

Not all of these people appear on every song, but what a dream lineup! (The only person missing is Del McCoury!)

"Tales from the Acoustic Planet 2" has a little taste of everything Fleck is known for. It has some solo banjo "Clarinet Polka", some more pensive slow numbers like "Over Grown Waltz", a little taste of the east "Katmandu", old-timey "Polka on the Banjo" and the downright weird "Do You Have Room?"

From the sentimental to the sublime and from the frentic to the silly...this disc amply displays why Fleck will go down in history as one of the most...Read more

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