Bela Fleck - Drive
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Artist: Bela FleckEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1992-02-14
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Whitewater
- Slipstream
- Up And Around The Bend
- Natchez Trace
- See Rock City
- The Legend
- The Lights Of Home
- Down In The Swamp
- Sanctuary
- The Open Road
- Crucial County Breakdown
Music reviews of Drive
Music Review: Drive Indeed
Rating: 4 Stars
God, Bela Fleck lost so much when he went on to form the Flecktones, a band that narrowly misses falling into a smooth jazz rut by injecting its music with passionless virtuosity. This collection of instrumental "newgrass" really is the ultimate rural road trip soundtrack, perfectly capturing the feeling of blue skies and high spirits (corny as it may sound). Good musicianship all around: it almost seems inappropriate to comment on the virtues of the individual musicians, since their improvisation blends together so well, although I will say that fiddle player Mark O'Connor and Bela himself stand out to me as being the most accomplished and exciting players here. It's too background-y and "polite" for me to consider it to be on par with great albums such as Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, Revolver by the Beatles, etc., so I can't bring myself to give it five stars. But, don't let that steer you to overlook this music. Crank this music in the car on the way to the mountains and see if it doesn't resonate.
Description of Drive
11 tracks.When Béla Fleck produced this little-known gem in 1988, the New Grass Revival was winding down and the Flecktones had yet to be formed. Fleck's previous solo outings had strayed from his bluegrass roots to varying degrees, but what makes Drive so special is how closely it hews to traditional bluegrass in sound and instrumentation while still allowing for exciting new ideas, crisp ensemble passages, and brilliant improvisation. The musicians who help out are all tops in their field: Dobro player Jerry Douglas, flat-picker Tony Rice, mandolinist Sam Bush, fiddlers Stuart Duncan and Mark O'Connor (who team up for a twin-fiddle sound on two down-home cuts), and bassist Mark Schatz. There's not a missed note (or superfluous one for that matter) anywhere, from the steamrolling opener "Whitewater" to the minor-keyed, jazz-based "Natchez Trace" to the warm ballad "Lights of Home" to the powerful "Crucial County Breakdown." The much heralded, classical-influenced Strength in Numbers record came less than a year later and included Fleck, Bush, O'Connor, and Douglas, but Drive certainly deserves a spot next to it in your newgrass collection. --Marc Greilsamer
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