The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2

The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet Volume 2
Studio album by Béla Fleck
Released	June 22, 1999
Genre	Bluegrass, Americana, folk, jazz, polka
Length	75:39
Label	Warner Bros.
Béla Fleck chronology
Tabula Rasā (1996) The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet Volume 2 (1999) Perpetual Motion (2001)

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The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol.2 is an album by Béla Fleck. Going back to his bluegrass roots, Fleck put together a band of all-stars of the genre: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tony Rice, Mark Schatz, Vassar Clements, John Hartford and others.^[1]

Track listing[]

1. "Blue Mountain Hop" – 4:26
2. "Buffalo Nickel" – 4:38
3. "When Joy Kills Sorrow" – 5:10
4. "Spanish Point" – 5:36
5. "Polka On The Banjo" – 4:04
6. "Clarinet Polka" – 1:33
7. "The Over Grown Waltz" – 3:42
8. "Ode To Earl" – 3:09
9. "Home Sweet Home" – 2:20
10. "Valley Of The Rogue" – 5:12
11. "Plunky's Lament" – 2:17
12. "Maura On A Bicycle, Stout And Molasses, Way Back When" – 9:41
13. "Dark Circles" – 5:13
14. "Old Jellico, Puddle Jumper, Dead Man's Hill" – 6:08
15. "Katmandu" – 4:23
16. "Do You Have Room?" – 1:17
17. "Foggy Mountain Special" – 2:12
18. "Major Honker" – 4:38

Personnel[]

• Sam Bush – Mandolin
• Vassar Clements – Fiddle
• Jerry Douglas – Dobro
• Stuart Duncan – Fiddle
• Béla Fleck – Banjo, Producer, Art Direction, Mixing, Photography, Vocal (track 5 only)
• Vince Gill – Vocals
• John Hartford – Banjo, Fiddle, Vocals, Bass Vocal
• – Drums
• Tim O'Brien – Vocals
• – Tuba
• Tony Rice – Guitar, Photography
• Mark Schatz – Bass Fiddle
• Ricky Skaggs – Vocals
• Joey Miskulin – Accordion
• Earl Scruggs - Banjo

Production[]

• Richard Battaglia – Engineer, Mixing, Photography
• Senor McGuire – Photography
• Denny Purcell – Mastering
• Garrett Rittenberry – Art Direction
• Bil VornDick – Engineer, Mixing
• Cindy Wilson – Photography

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