Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - Béla Fleck & The Flecktones (1989)
Cover Front Album
Artist/Composer Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Length 47:56
Format mp3
Index 1516
Track List
01 Sea Brazil 0 03:43
02 Frontiers 0 06:08
03 Hurricane Camille 0 02:38
04 Half Moon Bay 0 05:09
05 The Sinister Minister 0 04:38
06 Sunset Road 0 05:04
07 Flipper 0 04:21
08 Mars Needs Women: Space Is a Lonely Place 0 05:01
09 Mars Needs Women: They're Here 0 03:30
10 Reflections of Lucy 0 03:38
11 Tell It to the Gov'nor 0 04:06
Personal
Rating 00%
Location TRAX_002
kbps 128
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
Notes
This is the first album the band made. The musicians are Howard Levy on harmonica and keyboards, Future Man on synth-axe drumitar, Victor Lemonte Wooten on electric bass and Béla Fleck on banjo. It was recorded in seven days in 1989 using Béla's own funds and later sold to Warner Brothers Records. The band had no concrete plans to tour or be a full time band at this time, it was just a creative project for the music's own sake.

The band got together first in 1988 for the Lonesome Pines Specials, a PBS TV show that featured an hour of Béla's music. They played 4 gigs about 6 months later and made the record several months after that. In 1990 Béla left the New Grass Revival and the Flecktones became a full time band.