or iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Bluegrass Released: Oct 07, 2014 Customer Ratings (14 Ratings) |
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn – Béla Fleck & Abigail WashburnCustomer ReviewsIncredible. (5 stars)The whole album is available to listen on NPR right now, and it’s just incredible. If you like banjos and all their varied glory, then buy this album. human being, banjo player (5 stars) I like this album a lot. It is a marriage on many dimensions, beginning with the marriage of the artists, the confluence of clawhammer and finger picking, and the melding of banjo and voice. Superb! Spectacular!!! Awesome!!! (5 stars) Love it!!! BiographyBorn: July 10, 1958 in New York, NYGenre: Jazz Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s Premier banjo player Béla Fleck is considered one of the most innovative pickers in the world and has done much to demonstrate the versatility of his instrument, which he uses to play everything from traditional bluegrass to progressive jazz. He was named after composer Béla Bartok and was born in New York City. Around age 15, Fleck became fascinated with the banjo after hearing Flatt & Scruggs' "Ballad of Jed Clampett" and Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell's "Dueling Banjos,"...
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