Music / folk

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn


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Summary: Although they have worked on each other's projects in the past, this album represents the first true musical coming together of banjo royalty. Together, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn continue to take the instrument to new heights.

Reviews (2)


DownBeat

2015 January

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J. Poet

2015 January

"Béla Fleck may be the most innovative banjo America has ever produced, with a style that draws on bluegrass, jazz, classical and world music. Abigail Washburn started out as a traditional clawhammer player, but a sojourn in China led her to incorporate Chinese folk music and scales into her playing and composing. This is their first outing as a duo".


fRoots

2014 December

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Steve Hunt

2014 December

"After a decade of shared gigs and five years of marriage, [Mr & Mrs Banjo] now deliver their first duo album, with foundations in ballads, gospel tunes, blues and other traditions from the American Bible Belt ... If [the] lack of instrumental diversity suggests a one-dimensional listening experience, think again. In Fleck and Washburn's hands, banjos riff like guitars on Railroad, ripple like pianos across Washburn's Ride To You, and ring like harps on a set of two short tunes by Fleck's namesake Béla Bartók. Washburn delivers the songs in the voice of an Appalachian angel. Her reading of Am I Born To Die (accompanied by a solitary banjo) is enough to make a stone-hearted atheist weep".