B?la Fleck - Drive
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Artist: B?la FleckEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-02-14
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Whitewater
- Slipstream
- Up And Around The Bend
- Natchez Trace
- See Rock City
- The Legend
- The Lights Of Home
- Down In The Swamp
- Sanctuary
- The Open Road
- Crucial County Breakdown
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Free Music Review: Such an incredible album
Hit: 5 Stars
I REALLY recommend buying this album. It's so uplifting and the musicianship is just astounding. I don't even like bluegrass, and I think it's amazing! I'm a new convert to B?la Fleck.
Drive Poster
When B?la Fleck produced this little-known gem in 1988, the New Grass Revival was winding down and the Flecktones had yet to be formed. Fleck's previous solo outings had strayed from his bluegrass roots to varying degrees, but what makes Drive so special is how closely it hews to traditional bluegrass in sound and instrumentation while still allowing for exciting new ideas, crisp ensemble passages, and brilliant improvisation. The musicians who help out are all tops in their field: Dobro player Jerry Douglas, flat-picker Tony Rice, mandolinist Sam Bush, fiddlers Stuart Duncan and Mark O'Connor (who team up for a twin-fiddle sound on two down-home cuts), and bassist Mark Schatz. There's not a missed note (or superfluous one for that matter) anywhere, from the steamrolling opener "Whitewater" to the minor-keyed, jazz-based "Natchez Trace" to the warm ballad "Lights of Home" to the powerful "Crucial County Breakdown." The much heralded, classical-influenced Strength in Numbers record came less than a year later and included Fleck, Bush, O'Connor, and Douglas, but Drive certainly deserves a spot next to it in your newgrass collection. --Marc GreilsamerCountry Music CDs
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