This is the discography of the Grammy-winning banjoist Béla Fleck which consists of 25 studio albums (15 solo, two with Tasty Licks, three with Spectrum, two with Sparrow Quartet, three with Abigail Washburn), 13 collaboration albums, one live album, three music videos, 22 singles (16 as lead artist and six as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.
Albums Studio albums Solo albums TitleAlbum details Crossing the TracksReleased: 1979 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP Natural Bridge Released: 1982 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP DeviationReleased: 1984 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP Double TimeReleased: 1984 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP InroadsReleased: 1986 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP DriveReleased: 1988 Label: Rounder Format: CD Tales from the Acoustic PlanetReleased: 1995 Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2Released: June 22, 1999 Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Perpetual MotionReleased: October 2, 2001 Label: Sony Format: CD Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa SessionsReleased: March 3, 2009 Label: Rounder Format: CD, digital download Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions Part 2Released: 2010 Label: Acoustic Planet Format: CD, digital download The ImpostorReleased: August 13, 2013 Label: Mercury Format: CD, digital download My Bluegrass HeartReleased: September 10, 2021 Label: Renew Format: CD, digital download, streaming Rhapsody in BlueRelease: February 12, 2024 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: CD, digital download, streaming
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
The New Grass Revival
Tasty Licks TitleAlbum details Tasty LicksReleased: 1978 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP Anchored to the ShoreReleased: 1979 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Spectrum TitleAlbum details Opening RollReleased: 1980 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP Live in JapanReleased: 1983 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP It's Too Hot for WordsReleased: 1982 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Sparrow Quartet TitleAlbum details Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow QuartetReleased: May 20, 2008 Label: Nettwerk Format: CD, digital download The Sparrow Quartet EPReleased: May 29, 2009 Label: Nettwerk Format: CD
Abigail Washburn TitleAlbum details Béla Fleck & Abigail WashburnReleased: October 7, 2014 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP digital download Banjo BanjoReleased: February 5, 2016 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, digital download, streaming Echo in the ValleyReleased: October 20, 2017 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP, digital download, streaming
Collaborations TitleAlbum details Fiddle Tunes for Banjo Release 1981 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP Snakes Alive! Released: 1983 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP The Telluride Sessions Released: 1989 Label: MCA Nashville Format: Vinyl, LP Solo Banjo Works Released: 1992 Label: Rounder Format: CD Tabula Rasā Released: July 2, 1996 Label: Water Lily Acoustics Format: CD Uncommon Ritual Released: September 30, 1997 Label: Sony Classical Format: CD The Enchantment Released: May 22, 2007 Label: Concord Format: CD The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio Released: August 25, 2009 Label: Koch Format: CD, digital download Across the Imaginary Divide Released: June 5, 2012 Label: Rounder Format: CD, digital download Two Released: September 11, 2015 Label: Stretch Format: Digital download, streaming The Ripple Effect Released: March 27, 2020 Label: Craft Format: Vinyl, LP, digital download, streaming "As We Speak" Release: May 12, 2023 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Digital download, streaming Remembrance Released: May 10, 2024 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Digital download, streamingBEATrio Released: May 16, 2025 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital download, streamingThe Fiddle and the Drum Released: May 29, 2026 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital download, streaming
Live albums TitleAlbum details Music for Two Released: May 24, 2004 Label: Sony Classical Format: CD
Compilation albums TitleAlbum details DaybreakRelease 1987 Label: Rounder Format: CD PlacesReleased: 1988 Label: Rounder Format: CD
Singles As lead artist TitleYearAlbum "Pile-Up" 2004 Music For Two "The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude 24 in B Minor BMV 869" (Arr. B. Fleck & E. Meyer) "Sunrise" 2018 Come All Ye Coal Miners / Take Me to Harlan Echo in the Valley "Christmas Time's a Coming (And I Know I'm Staying Home) 2020 "Charm School" 2021 My Bluegrass Heart "Vertigo" "Wheels Up" "Owl's Misfortune" 2023 As We Speak "Unidentified Piece for Banjo" Rhapsody in Blue "Rhapsody in Blue (grass)" 2024 "Remembrance" Remembrance "Juno" "Sakkarakaari" - Tamil rowspan=4 "Sakkarakaari" - Hindi "Chakkera Pilla" - Telugu "Let the Creek Rise"
As featured artist TitleYearAlbumRef. "Don't Drink the Water" 1998 Before These Crowded Streets "Stars" 2020 rowspan=5 "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" 2021 "Better 'N You" 2022 "Eye of the Tiger" 2023 "Sakkare Chakori" - Kannada 2024
Music videos TitleYearArtist(s)AlbumRef. "Don't Let It Bring You Down" 2017 Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn Echo in the Valley "Let It Go" 2018 "Come All You Coal Miners/Take Me To Harlan"
Production and songwriting These are writing and production credits for music outside of Béla Fleck's own solo work, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, with Abigail Washburn, and others listed.
TitleYearArtist(s)AlbumNotes 1988 Maura O'Connell Just in Time Producer "Burn On" 2006 Béla Fleck Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman Recorder, producer, and mixer "People Watchin'" 2007 Keller Williams Dream Engineer 2009 Bryan Sutton and Friends Almost Live Composer
Other appearances TitleYearCredited artist(s)AlbumRef. "Crooked Smile"1985 Sam Bush Late as Usual rowspan=2 Hobo Jim Lost and Dyin' Breed 1988 Leon Redbone No Regrets "Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan" 1989 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two "Little Mountain Church House" "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World" "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Øystein Sunde Kjekt å Ha "Happy to Meet"1992 The Chieftains Another Country "Killybegs" "Finale: Did You Ever Go-A-Courtin', Uncle Joe/Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Shawn Colvin Fat City "Riker's Mailbox" 1994 Phish Hoist "Lifeboy" "Scent of a Mule" "Birdland" Jerry Douglas The Great Dobro Sessions "Wave" Mike Auldridge "Wake Forest" "White Wheeled Limousine" 1995 Bruce Hornsby Hot House "The Meeting" David Grier Lone Soldier "Alphabet Soup" "Segue" 1996 Curandero Aras "Embrujada" "Man of the Shadows" "Once Upon a Time" "Amarillo Barbados" Ginger Baker Falling Off the Roof"Au Privave""Taney County" "The Last Stop" 1998 Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets "Spoon" Dave Matthews Band "Zenergy" 1999 Victor Wooten Yin-Yang "Dance On Your Head" Leftover Salmon The Nashville Sessions "Up On the Hill Where We Do the Boogie" Leftover Salmon "Old Dominion" Eddie from Ohio Looking Out the Fishbowl "The Inlaw Josie Wales" 2000 Phish Farmhouse "Dark as a Dungeon" 2001 John Cowan A Tribute to John Hartford: Live From Mountain Stage "On the Road" Béla Fleck "Just Because" 2002 Jorma Kaukonen Blue Country Heart "Bread Line Blues" "Down the Old Plank Road" The Chieftans Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions "Dark as a Dungeon" The Chieftans "Molly Bán (Bawn)" The Chieftans "Give the Fiddler a Dram" "Bonnaroo Traveler" Edgar Meyer Live From Bonnaroo Music Festival 2002 "Amazing Grace" 2003 Rory Gallagher Wheels Within Wheels "Walkin' Blues" "Deep Elem Blues" "La Salsa en Mi" Bernie Williams The Journey Within "Stranded on the Bridge" Mike Gordon Inside In "Polka on the Banjo" Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra Let's Polka 'Round "Patchwork Quilt Gov't Mule The Deepest End: Live in Concert "Lay of the Sunflower" "Força" Nelly Furtado Folklore rowspan=4 Michael Card A Fragile Stone2004 Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Vol. 1: 12.8.98 Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA Charlie Peacock Full Circle: A Celebration of Songs and Friends 2005 Jeff Coffin Bloom "Who's Your Uncle?" Jerry Douglas The Best Kept Secret rowspan=2 Jamie Hartford Part of Your History: The Songs of John Hartford 2006 Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Vol. 7: 12.31.96 Hamptom Coliseum, Hampton, VA "Burn On" Béla Fleck Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman "People Watchin'" 2007 Keller Williams Dream 2008 Jeff Coffin Mutopia "Trade Winds" McCoy Tyner Guitars"Amberjack""My Favorite Things" 2009 Bryan Sutton and Friends Almost Live "If Looks Could Kill" 2011 Bootsy Collins Tha Funk Capital of the World "Midnight Moonlight" 2013 Jerry Garcia Band Garcia Live Volume Two "The Harder They Come" "Heart of the Dreamer" 2015 Steve Martin and Edie Brickell So Familiar "Focus Poem"2018Jonathan ScalesPillar "No Fear" 2019 Grégoire Maret and Edmar Castañeda Harp vs. Harp "Santa Morena" Roger Burn Trilogy (A Tribute To Roger Burn & Shapes) "Line and Lure" 2022 Cory Wong Power Station "Pebbles" "Brown Ferry Blues 2024 Terry Trischka Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs "—" denotes he wasn't on one song, but an entire album.
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External links Official website