Fleck, Washburn announce EP
Available on CD Oct. 2 and vinyl Oct. 30 (both exclusively through Barnes and Noble), the EP features three previously unreleased tracks paired with live versions of Washburn's murder ballad "Shotgun Blues," the duo's minor-key take on "Railroad" and the instrumental "Banjo Banjo," written for their 2 year-old son, Juno.
The previously unreleased studio songs are arrangements of age-old Chinese folk, Bartok and metal. "Hao Hua Hong," ("Beautiful Red Flower"), sung by Washburn in Mandarin (she's near-fluent), is adapted from the Buyi people who live high in the mountain forests of Guizhou. Fleck offers "Evening in Transylvania," with an instrumental of Europe's "The Final Countdown," arranged for the A.V. Club's Undercover series. Europe was an '80s hair metal band.
The duo's self-titled debut came out last fall.
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CD reviews
Drop the needle on Rounder 0106, Tasty Licks' debut album from 1978, and the first sound heard is Béla Fleck's initial recorded offering, a flurry of 5-string banjo notes immediately appealing and electrifying.
Forty-three years later, and in a year that marked the loss of two founding legends of bluegrass banjo, J.D. Crowe and Sonny Osborne, it seems appropriate that an equally influential innovator should make his return to the music that gave him his start. ...
With decades of experience between them, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn could be forgiven for putting together a simple collection of traditional songs for their second collaboration. But, nobody has ever accused Fleck and Washburn of standing pat, so it should not surprise that this new album of (mostly) original songs is fresh and satisfying.
"Echoes In The Valley" is spare, yet complex. Each cut (save for an instrumental medley midway through that anchored by Fleck's ...
It's almost a joke in search of a punchline: what happens when two banjo players get married? One thing you get is the indescribably cute kid pictured on the inside jacket of this first studio collaboration between banjo legend Bela Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn, their son Juno. At the time of their marriage, fiddler and longtime friend Casey Driessen famously joked that their first male offspring would be destined to become Holy Banjo Emperor, and in fact at the age of just over a year ...
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