The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2
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The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol.2 is an album by Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

. Going back to his bluegrass roots, Fleck put together a band of all-stars of the genre: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tony Rice, Mark Schatz, Vassar Clements, John Hartford and others.

Track listing

  1. "Blue Mountain Hop" – 4:26
  2. "Buffalo Nickel" – 4:38
  3. "When Joy Kills Sorrow" – 5:10
  4. "Spanish Point" – 5:36
  5. "Polka On The Banjo" – 4:04
  6. "Clarinet Polka" – 1:33
  7. "The Over Grown Waltz" – 3:42
  8. "Ode To Earl" – 3:09
  9. "Home Sweet Home" – 2:20
  10. "Valley Of The Rogue" – 5:12
  11. "Plunky's Lament" – 2:17
  12. "Maura On A Bicycle, Stout And Molasses, Way Back When" – 9:41
  13. "Dark Circles" – 5:13
  14. "Old Jellico, Puddle Jumper, Dead Man's Hill" – 6:08
  15. "Katmandu" – 4:23
  16. "Do You Have Room?" – 1:17
  17. "Foggy Mountain Special" – 2:12
  18. "Major Honker" – 4:38

Personnel

  • Sam Bush
    Sam Bush
    Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...

      – Mandolin
  • Vassar Clements
    Vassar Clements
    Vassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...

      – Fiddle
  • Jerry Douglas
    Jerry Douglas
    Jerry Douglas may refer to:*Jerry Douglas , actor, who was on The Young and the Restless for 25 years*Jerry Douglas, country/bluegrass musician*Jerry Douglas , director and writer of adult films such as, Score...

      – Dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

  • Stuart Duncan
    Stuart Duncan
    Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...

      – Fiddle
  • Béla Fleck
    Béla Fleck
    Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

      – Banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

    , Producer, Art Direction, Mixing, Photography
  • Vince Gill
    Vince Gill
    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

      – Vocals
  • John Hartford
    John Hartford
    John Cowan Hartford was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore...

      – Banjo, Bass Volka
  • Bob Mater  – Drums
  • Tim O'Brien
    Tim O'Brien (musician)
    Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...

      – Vocals
  • Larry Paxton  – Tuba
    Tuba
    The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

  • Tony Rice
    Tony Rice
    Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

     – Guitar, Photography
  • Mark Schatz – Bass Fiddle
  • Ricky Skaggs
    Ricky Skaggs
    Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo.-Early career:...

      – Vocals
  • Joey Miskulin
    Joey Miskulin
    Joseph M. Miskulin is a hall of fame accordionist and producer of Grammy Award-winning music albums. In a music career spanning more than four decades, Joey Miskulin has collaborated with a range of artists including Paul McCartney, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, Andy Williams, Ricky Van Shelton,...

    – Accordion

Production

  • Richard Battaglia – Engineer, Mixing, Photography
  • Senor McGuire – Photography
  • Denny Purcell – Mastering
  • Garrett Rittenberry – Art Direction
  • Bil VornDick – Engineer, Mixing
  • Cindy Wilson – Photography
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