Bela Fleck - Places (1987) FLAC

Tracks

1. Deviation
2. Reverie
3. Nuns for Nixon
4. Malone
5. Moontides
6. Another Morning
7. Lowdown
8. The Bullfrog Shuffle
9. Places
10. Snakes Alive
11. Ladies and Gentleman
12. Light Speed
13. Ireland
14. Four Wheel Drive
15. Perplexed
16. The Old Country
17. Hudson's Bay
18. Close to Home

Personnel

Tracks 1-5 & 9 are from Deviation (Rounder 0196) recorded by Bela with the New Grass Revival.
Bela plays five string banjo, guitar (nylon string banjo on track 5).
John Cowan: bass. Pat Flynn: guitar. Sam Bush: mandolin. Special guests: Kenny Malone: drums, clay pots. Mark O'Connor: violin. Jerry Douglas: Dobro.
Produced by Bela Fleck. Recorded at Star-gem Studios, Nashville by 6/7 VornDick.
Recorded during spring and early summer of 1983.
This album was dedicated to the memory of Steve Goodman

Tracks 6-8, 11 & 12 are from Double Time, an album of acoustic duets featuring the five-string banjo.
Bela plays banjo.
Joining Bela are Jerry Douglas, Dobro (track 6); Edgar Meyer, bass (track 7) and Mark Schatz, nylon string banjo (track 1 Track 11 features Darol Anger on cello; track 12 features Mike Marshall on octave mandolin.
The same album also presents duets with Sam Bush, Pat Flynn, David Grisman, John Hartford, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs.
Tracks 6 & 8 were recorded at Stargem by Bil VornDick.
Track 7 at Burns Station Sound, Burns, Tennessee by Kurt Storey. Recorded December 1982 and the first half of 1983.
Track 11 was cut at Different Fur Studio, San Francisco by Howard Johnson.
Track 12 was cut at The Marshall Residence, San Francisco by Mike Marshall. Released as Rounder 0181.

Track 10 is from the Dreadful Snakes LP, Snakes Alive (Rounder 0177).
The Dreadful Snakes are an occasional bluegrass band of friends from the Nashville area.
Featured here are: Jerry Douglas: Dobro; Pat Enright: guitar; Bela Fleck: banjo; Mark Hembree: bass; Blaine Sprouse: fiddle; Roland White: mandolin.
Released in 1984, this record was produced by Fleck and Flux.
Engineered and mixed by Rich Adler, Studio By the Pond, Henderson-ville, Tennessee.

Tracks 13-18 are from Inroads {Rounder 02191, recorded at the Nashville Sound Connection by Bil VornDick.
Mixed and mastered digitally.
The musicians: Bela Fleck: five string banjo, electric banjo; Sam Bush: mandolin; Jerry Douglas: Dobro; Pat Flynn: guitar; Mark O'Connor: violin; Kirby Shelstad: vibraphone, drums on track 18. Tom Roady: percussion. Kenny Malone: drums except track 18. John Cowan: bass on 14, 17, 18. Mark Schatz: bass on 13, 15, 16 (bowed bass} 8 17. Timothy Britton: uillean pipes. Strings on track 16: Connie Herd (violins) and Edgar Meyer (basses}.
String chart on track 16 composed by Edgar Meyer. Kirby's intro to track 15 was improvised.