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Béla Fleck: Drive

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Label: Rounder Records
Released: 1988
Time:
 47:33
Category: Progressive Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.flecktones.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1998
Price in €: 19,99



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[1] Whitewater (B.Fleck) - 3:07
[2] Slipstream (B.Fleck) - 5:06
[3] Up and Around the Bend (B.Fleck) - 3:34
[4] Natchez Trace (B.Fleck) - 4:56
[5] See Rock City (B.Fleck) - 4:01
[6] The Legend (B.Fleck) - 4:16
[7] The Lights of Home (B.Fleck) - 5:06
[8] Down in the Swamp (B.Fleck) - 3:34
[9] Sanctuary (B.Fleck) - 7:21
[10] The Open Road (B.Fleck) - 3:35
[11] Crucial County Breakdown (B.Fleck) - 2:57

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Béla Fleck - Banjo, Producer

Tony Rice - Guitar
Peter Rowan - Vocals
Sam Bush - Mandolin
Stuart Duncan - Fiddle
Mark O'Connor - Fiddle
Mark Schatz - Bass

Shawn R. Britton - Mastering

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1988 CD Rounder CD-0255
1988 LP Rounder 0255
1988 CS Rounder C-0255



When Béla Fleck produced this little-known gem in 1988, the New Grass Revival was winding down and the Flecktones had yet to be formed. Fleck's previous solo outings had strayed from his bluegrass roots to varying degrees, but what makes Drive so special is how closely it hews to traditional bluegrass in sound and instrumentation while still allowing for exciting new ideas, crisp ensemble passages, and brilliant improvisation. The musicians who help out are all tops in their field: Dobro player Jerry Douglas, flat-picker Tony Rice, mandolinist Sam Bush, fiddlers Stuart Duncan and Mark O'Connor (who team up for a twin-fiddle sound on two down-home cuts), and bassist Mark Schatz. There's not a missed note (or superfluous one for that matter) anywhere, from the steamrolling opener "Whitewater" to the minor-keyed, jazz-based "Natchez Trace" to the warm ballad "Lights of Home" to the powerful "Crucial County Breakdown." The much heralded, classical-influenced Strength in Numbers record came less than a year later and included Fleck, Bush, O'Connor, and Douglas, but Drive certainly deserves a spot next to it in your newgrass collection.

Marc Greilsamer - Amazon.com
 

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