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Tales from the Acoustic Planet

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Released
  
1995

Artist
  
Béla Fleck

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Tales From The Acoustic Planet (1995)
  
Tabula Rasā (1996)

Release date
  
1995

Tales from the Acoustic Planet httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen991199

Genres
  
Bluegrass, Jazz, Americana

Similar
  
Béla Fleck albums, Bluegrass albums

B la fleck up and running


Tales From The Acoustic Planet is an album by American banjoist Béla Fleck. It is a jazzy album with roots in bluegrass, where Fleck is joined by bluegrass stars (Sam Bush, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas), as well as his jazz friends (Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Paul McCandless) and Flecktones members (Victor Wooten, Future Man). This is also his first solo album since 1988's Places.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Béla Fleck except where noted.

  1. Up and Running
  2. First Light
  3. The Great Circle Route
  4. Circus of Regrets
  5. Three Bridges Home
  6. The Landing
  7. Arkansas Traveller (trad.)
  8. Backwoods Galaxy
  9. In Your Eyes
  10. System Seven
  11. Cheeseballs in Cowtown
  12. Bicyclops
  13. Jayme Lynn
  14. For Sascha

Personnel

  • Béla Fleck - banjo (all tracks)
  • Grace Bahng - cello (track 13)
  • Sam Bush - mandolin (tracks 10, 11)
  • Chick Corea - piano (tracks 8, 9, 12)
  • Jerry Douglas - resophonic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 11)
  • Stuart Duncan - violin (tracks 3, 6, 10, 11)
  • Robert Barry Green - trombone (track 4)
  • Connie Heard - violin (track 13)
  • Bruce Hornsby - piano (track 3)
  • Kenny Malone - drums (tracks 7, 11), percussion (track 10)
  • Branford Marsalis - soprano saxophone (track 14), tenor saxophone (track 8)
  • Edgar Meyer - acoustic standup bass (tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14), piano (track 4)
  • Paul McCandless - bass clarinet (track 1), English horn (track 5), oboe (tracks 2, 5, 13), soprano saxophone (track 1)
  • Matt Mundy - mandolin (tracks 1, 6, 13)
  • Tony Rice - guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6)
  • Dennis Solee - clarinet (track 4)
  • George Tidwell - trumpet (track 4)
  • Mary Kathryn Vanasdale - violin (track 13)
  • Kristin Wilkinson - viola (track 13)
  • Roy "Futureman" Wooten - acoustic percussion (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 13), drums (tracks 5, 8), vocal wind effects (track 4)
  • Victor Wooten - bass (tracks 1, 5), fretless bass (tracks 3, 8, 11), electric standup bass (track 4)

    • Songs

    1Up and Running4:26
    2First Light2:41
    3The Great Circle Route4:21

    References

    Tales from the Acoustic Planet Wikipedia
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