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Telluride Sessions

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Released
  
1989

Producer
  
Strength in Numbers

Release date
  
1989

Length
  
45:48

Artist
  
Strength in Numbers

Label
  
MCA Nashville Records

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Genres
  
Bluegrass, Progressive bluegrass

Similar
  
Sam Bush albums, Bluegrass albums

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The Telluride Sessions is an album recorded by five acoustic-music instrumentalists under the name Strength in Numbers and released in 1989 on MCA Records Nashville. The five members are: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Mark O'Connor, and Edgar Meyer. The album is progressive bluegrass with jazz inflections, but also adds elements from classical music. O'Connor, Fleck, and Meyer further developed this genre in their compositions for orchestra and chamber music.

Contents

Apart from the ground-breaking musicianship, the project is also notable because each song was composed by a different pair of the artists featured. Each possible pair of musicians created one song for the album, one of the reasons for the name of the band, Strength in Numbers.


Track listing

  1. "Future Man" (O'Connor, Douglas)
  2. "Texas Red" (Bush, Fleck)
  3. "Pink Flamingos" (Bush, Meyer)
  4. "Duke and Cookie" (Bush, Douglas)
  5. "One Winter's Night" (Meyer, O'Connor)
  6. "Macedonia" (Bush, O'Connor)
  7. "The Lochs of Dread" (Fleck, Douglas)
  8. "No Apologies" (Douglas, Meyer)
  9. "Slopes" (Fleck, O'Connor)
  10. "Blue Men of the Sahara" (Fleck, Meyer)

Personnel

  • Sam Bush - mandolin, violin on "One Winter's Night"
  • Béla Fleck - banjo, guitar on "One Winter's Night"
  • Mark O'Connor - violin, guitar on "Slopes", mandolin on "Macedonia"
  • Edgar Meyer - bass
  • Jerry Douglas - dobro

    • Songs

    1Future Man5:10
    2Texas Red4:08
    3Pink Flamingos4:00

    References

    Telluride Sessions Wikipedia
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