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- From: Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
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- Welcome to alt.music.bela-fleck, a newsgroup for discussion of Bela
- Fleck and his new-acoustic, bluegrass or jazz music.
-
- This FAQ contains biographical and discographical (!) information on
- Bela Fleck.
-
- If you haven't already done so, now is as good a time as any to read
- the guide to Net etiquette which is regularly posted to
- news.announce.newusers. You should be familiar with acronyms like
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-
- This FAQ is currently posted to alt.music.bela-fleck, alt.answers and
- news.answers. The latest version is available via the World-Wide Web
- as
- http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/banjo/fleck-faq
- Read the World Wide Web FAQ (posted to alt.hypertext and other groups)
- for more information on the Web. This post is also archived in the
- numerous archives of news.answers (such as rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/)
- as bela-fleck-faq.
-
- This FAQ was mostly written by Nathan Torkington, with numerous
- contributions by readers of alt.music.bela-fleck. Comments and
- indications of doubt are enclosed in []s in the text. Each section
- begins with forty dashes (``-'') on a line of their own, then the
- section number. This should make searching for a specific section
- easy.
-
- Contributions, comments and changes should be directed to
- Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz
-
- ----------------------------------------
- List of Answers
-
- 1. Biography
- 1.1 Who is Bela Fleck anyway?
- 1.2 How do I say his name?
- 1.3 What's he done?
- 2. Discography
- 2.1 Solo Projects
- 2.2 Band Projects
- 2.2.1 Spectrum
- 2.2.2 Tasty Licks
- 2.2.3 Dreadful Snakes
- 2.2.4 New Grass Revival
- 2.2.5 Strength in Numbers
- 2.2.6 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
- 2.2.7 Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka
- 2.3 Session Work
- 2.9 Videos
- 3. Tablature
- 3.1 The Fleck Archives
- 3.2 Homespun Records
- 3.3 Janet Davis Music
- 3.4 The Banjo Songbook
- 4. Projects
- 5. Tour Guide
- 6. Miscellaneous Questions
- 6.1 What is the address of the Flecktone Fan Club?
- 6.2 Why did Howard Levy leave the Flecktones?
- 6.3 Why did NGR split?
- 6.4 What is ``Masters of the Five-String Banjo''?
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 1. Biography
-
- This section contains information on Bela Fleck as a person.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 1.1 Who is Bela Fleck anyway?
-
- Bela Fleck is a banjo player, born in New York but currently living in
- Nashville, Tennessee. He is (barely arguably) the most accomplished
- banjo player ever, and has won numerous awards. He has played jazz,
- classical, bluegrass, newgrass, rock, celtic and most other styles you
- care to name.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 1.2 How do I say his name?
-
- The 'e' in ``Bela'' has an acute on it, so it is pronounced ``Bayla''.
- ``Bella'' is plain wrong.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 1.3 What's he done?
-
- His first serious study of music was as a teenager at the New York
- City High School of Music and Art. From there, he played with
- ``Spectrum'' and ``Tasty Licks'', finally moving to the ``New Grass
- Revival'' with Sam Bush, Pat Flynn and John Cowan.
-
- In 198x, NGR split and Bela formed ``Bela Fleck and the Flecktones''.
- This group has continued to this day.
-
- Along the way, he made several solo albums, played with ``The Dreadful
- Snakes'', ``Strength in Numbers'' and had a brief diversion with
- ``Banjo Jazz''. In addition, his session credits are enormous.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2. Discography
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.1 Solo Projects
-
- Crossing The Tracks
- Rounder 0121 (Cassette)
-
- Dear Old Dixie
- Inman Square
- Texas Barbeque
- Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman
- Spain
- Crossing the Tracks
- Spring Thaw
- How Can You Face Me Now
- Twilight
- Frosty Morning
- Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
-
- Natural Bridge Suite
- Rounder
-
- Deviation
- Rounder 0196
-
- Double Time
- Rounder 0181
-
- Inroads
- Rounder CD 0219 (Compact Disc)
-
- Tonino
- Somerset
- Cecata
- Four Wheel Drive
- Ireland
- Perplexed
- The Old Country
- Hudson's Bay
- Close to Home
-
- Daybreak
- Rounder CD 11518 (Compact Disc)
- Compilation
-
- Texas Barbeque
- Spain
- Twilight
- Reading in the Dark
- Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman
- How Can You Face Me Now
- Bill Cheatham
- Christina's Jig/Plain Brown Jig
- Silverball
- Fiddler's Dream
- Daybreak
- Dawg's Due
- Flexibility
- Old Hickory Waltz
- Crossfire
- Applebutter
- The Natural Bridge Suite
- Punchdrunk
-
- Places
- Rounder CD 11522 (Compact Disc)
- Compilation
-
- Deviation
- Reverie
- Nuns for Nixon
- Malone
- Moontides
- Another Morning
- Lowdown
- The Bullfrog Shuffle
- Places
- Snakes Alive
- Ladies and Gentleman [sic]
- Light Speed
- Ireland
- Four Wheel Drive
- Perplexed
- The Old Country
- Hudson's Bay
- Close to Home
-
- Drive
- Rounder CD 0255 (Compact Disc)
-
- Whitewater
- Slipstream
- Up and Around the Bend
- Natchez Trace
- See Rock City
- The Legend
- The Lights of Home
- Down in the Swap
- Sanctuary
- The Open Road
- Crucial County Breakdown (bonus CD track)
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2 Band Projects
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.1 Spectrum
-
- Spectrum
- Spectrum Live in Japan
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.2 Tasty Licks
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.3 The Dreadful Snakes
-
- The Dreadful Snakes
- Rounder 0177
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.4 New Grass Revival
-
- with Sam Bush, Pat Flynn and John Cowan.
-
- Live
- Sugar Hill SH-CD-3711
-
- White Freight Liner Blues
- Good Woman's Love
- One More Love Song
- Walk in Jerusalem
- Watermelon Man
- Reach
- Sapporo
-
- Anthology
- (liner notes call him ``Bella'')
- Capitol CDP 7 94624 2
-
- Can't Stop Now
- Ain't That Peculiar
- Angel Eyes
- Revival
- Metric Lips
- Reach
- You Plant Your Fields
- Callin' Baton Rouge
- Hold to a Dream
- Friday Night in America
-
- New Grass Revival
-
- What You Do to Me
- Love Someone Like Me
- Lonely Rider
- Sweet Release
- How Many Hearts
- In the Middle of the Night
- Saw You Runnin'
- Ain't That Peculiar
- Seven by Seven
- Revival
-
- On the Boulevard
-
- On the Boulevard
- Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire
- You're the Best Friend
- Just Is
- Country Clare
- One More Love Song
- You Don't Knock
- One of These Trains
- Get in the Wind
- Indian Hills
- One Love / People Get Ready
-
- Hold To A Dream
- Capitol CLT-46962 (LP)
- c1987
-
- Hold to a Dream
- One Way Street
- Can't Stop Now
- I'll Take Tomorrow
- Before the Heartache Rolls In
- Looking Past You
- How About You
- Metric Lips
- I Can Talk to You
- Unconditional Love
-
- Friday Night In America
- Capitol C4-90739 (Cassette)
- c1989
-
- Friday Night in America
- You Plant Your Fields
- Let's Make A Baby King
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Let Me Be Your Man
- Lila
- Callin' Baton Rouge
- Whatever Way the Wind Blows
- Big Foot
- Angel Eyes
- I'm Down
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.5 Strength in Numbers
-
- With Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and Mark O'Connor.
-
- The Telluride Sessions
- MCA CMAD-6293
-
- Future Man
- Texas Red
- Pink Flamingos
- Duke and Cookie
- One Winter's Night
- Macedonia
- The Lochs of Dread
- No Apologies
- Slopes
- Blue Men of the Sahara
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.6 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
-
- With Victor Wooten, Roy Wooten and Howard Levy.
-
- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
- Warner Brothers WB 9 26124-2
-
- Sea Brazil
- Frontiers
- Hurricane Camille
- Half Moon Bay
- The Sinister Minister
- Sunset Road
- Flipper
- Mars Needs Women
- Space is a Lonely Place
- They're Here
- Reflections of Lucy
- Tell it to the Guv'nor
-
- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
- Warner Brothers WB 9 26562-2
-
- Blu-Bop
- Flying Saucer Dudes
- Turtle Rock
- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Star of the Country Down
- Jekyll and Hyde (and Ted and Alice)
- Michelle
- Hole in the Wall
- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (reprise)
-
- UFO TOFO
- Warner Brothers WB 9 45016-2
-
- The West Country
- Sex in a Pan
- Bonnie & Slyde
- Scuttlebutt
- UFO TOFU
- Magic Fingers
- True North
- Life without Elvis
- Saresta
- The Yee-haw Factor
- After the Storm
-
- (without Howard Levy, and with other musicians)
-
- Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next
- Warner Brothers WB 9 45328-2
-
- Vix 9
- At Last We Meet Again
- Spunky And Clorissa
- Bumbershoot
- Blues for Gordon
- Monkey See
- The Message
- Interlude (Return of the Ancient Ones)
- The Drift
- A Celtic Medley
- Peace, Be Still
- The Longing
- For Now
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.2.7 Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka
-
- Bela plays on tracks marked with a star (*).
-
- Solo Banjo Works
- Rounder CD 0247
-
- Ruben's Wah Wah
- 2fourteen
- Liberec
- Free Improvisation #2
- Assunta
- Old Joe Clark/June Apple
- Max and Gus
- Beaumont Rag
- Kingfisher's Wing
- Earl Scruggs Medley (Nashville Skyline Rag/Ground
- Speed/Shucking the Corn)
- Jeff Davis Medley (Jeff Davis/Fort Monroe/Danville Days)
- Yaha Yaha
- Beatles Medley (I Feel Fine/Here, There and Everywhere/Eleanor
- Rigby/I'm a Loser/Baby You Can Drive My Car)
- The Rings of Saturn
- (*) Green Willis/Whiskey Before Breakfast
- (*) Killer Bees on Caffeine
- (*) Oma and Opa
- (*) Solaris
- (*) Flapperette/Red Pepper-Spicy Rag
- (*) Triplet Fever
- (*) Bach Violin Partita in D minor (BWV 1004)
- (*) Did You Ever Meet Gary Owen, Uncle Joe?
- (*) Middle Eastern Medley (Improv/Hilmi Rit/George and Gladys
- Kazatski)
- (*) Twisted Teen
- (*) Au Lait
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.3 Session Work
-
- Fluxology
- Jerry Douglas
- Rounder
- Collected on ``Everything is gonna workout fine''
- Rounder CD 11535
-
- Fluxedo
- Jerry Douglas
- Rounder
- Collected on ``Everything is gonna workout fine''
- Rounder CD 11535
-
- Late As Usual
- Sam Bush
- Rounder CD 0195
-
- Crooked Smile.
-
- Rounder Banjo
- Rounder CD 11542
-
- Perplexed.
-
- Stone From Which The Arch Was Made
- Mark O'Connor
- Warner CD 9 25539-2
-
- Opus 30: Remember Ireland.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 2.9 Videos
-
- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
- Warner Brothers 3-38223
-
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- 3. Tablature
-
- Transcriptions of Bela's music are available (as far as I know) from
- these sources only:
-
- (a) Homespun Music, via money
- (b) Janet Davis Music, via money
- (c) ``The Banjo Songbook''
- (d) ``Masters of the Five-String Banjo''
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 3.1 The Fleck Archives
-
- I was going to start an archive of Bela Fleck tablature, but I have
- since realised that this would deprive Bela of money, should he decide
- to tab out more of his stuff. Until we get electronic currency and
- royalty payments that way, I'm not going to create an archive of Bela
- tab.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 3.2 Homespun Records
-
- Tablature to his ``Drive'' album, and all of ``Solo Banjo Works''.
-
- Homespun Tapes
- Box 694F
- Woodstock, NY 12498
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 3.3 Janet Davis
-
- Janet has transcribed several of Bela's tunes and breaks. Contact her
- at:
-
- Janet Davis Music Company (JDMC)
- 609 Encino Way
- El Paso, TX 79912
-
- Phone: 1-800-933-5362
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 3.4 The Banjo Songbook
-
- Tony Trischka wrote it. It contains tablature to:
- Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman
- Bela's Dog
- Whiskey before Breakfast
- [...]
- [publishing info]
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 4. Projects
-
- Bela is mixing and recording a new album. It's acoustic, not just
- with the Flecktones. He has gotten Chick Corea to play on at least
- one track, Bruce Hornsby, and other great musicians. It promises to
- be a mellow jazz album.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 5. Tour Guide
-
- Information is available from the Flecktone Fan Club (see question
- 6.1) and are subject to change -- call before
- driving/flying/teleporting.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 6. Miscellaneous Questions
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 6.1 What is the address of the Flecktone Fan Club
-
- Flecktone Fan Club
- PO Box 91076
- Nashville, TN 37209
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 6.2 Why did Howard Levy leave the Flecktones?
-
- The fan club newsletter quotes family reasons and other musical
- interests.
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 6.3 Why did NGR split?
-
- It was said at a workshop a while ago that one person wanted to play
- jazz, one wanted to play country, one wanted to play rock and one
- didn't want to play at all. Whether this is the truth or not, who
- knows?
-
- ----------------------------------------
- 6.4 What is ``Masters of the Five-String Banjo''?
-
- A book, by Peter Wernick and Tony Trischka, that gives biographies,
- tablature and interviews with the big names in banjo-stardom. Bela is
- one of them, and the tablature to ``Black Forest'', ``Nuns for Nixon''
- and ``Little Maggie''.
-
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-