Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Great band great musician and very good recordings. The UFO_TOFU is a good system tester. Tales from acoustic planet,live art, left of cool, to name a few. Very musically satisfying even if you dislike country or bluegrass

If you like the more "classical grass", I just picked up Uncommon Ritual (Fleck, Meyer, Marshall) on Sony Classical. Claims 20 bit processing - may be dithered down - doesn't say. Hi Snooky.

Bela also did an album where he performed acoustic duets with a bunch of Jazz monsters including chick corea. I forget the name of the disk..most of the time I'm lucky to remember my own it seems. .i'll try to remember to look it up when i get home. Not the same idea as the flecktones or the bluegreass theme but it shows you how scary talanted the guy is.

I second Vtvu: see the Flecktones live. Bela and Victor, especially, are amazing.

I'm planning on seeing the Flecktones in Feb., my only exposure to Bela fleck has been bluegrass. Which one flecktone cd would you recommend prior to the concert. Just saw Mark O'Connor, he's great live. Three recommendations: the Tone Poem series, Rob Wasserman's Trios and Billy Novick and Guy Van Dusser.