Béla Fleck discography

Béla Fleck discography
Studio albums	25
Live albums	1
Compilation albums	1
Singles	17
Music videos	3
As featured artist	6
Collaboration albums	13
Other appearances	77

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

Title	Album details
Crossing the Tracks	Released: 1979 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Natural Bridge	Released: 1982 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Deviation	Released: 1984 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Double Time	Released: 1984 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Inroads	Released: 1986 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Drive	Released: 1988 Label: Rounder Format: CD
Tales from the Acoustic Planet	Released: 1995 Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD
The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2	Released: June 22, 1999 Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD
Perpetual Motion	Released: October 2, 2001 Label: Sony Format: CD
Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions	Released: March 3, 2009 Label: Rounder Format: CD, digital download
Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions Part 2	Released: 2010 Label: Acoustic Planet Format: CD, digital download
The Impostor	Released: August 13, 2013 Label: Mercury Format: CD, digital download
My Bluegrass Heart[1]	Released: September 10, 2021 Label: Renew Format: CD, digital download, streaming
Rhapsody in Blue[2]	Release: February 12, 2024 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: CD, digital download, streaming

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

Further information: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones § Discography

The New Grass Revival

Further information: New Grass Revival discography

Tasty Licks

Title	Album details
Tasty Licks	Released: 1978 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Anchored to the Shore	Released: 1979 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP

Spectrum

Title	Album details
Opening Roll	Released: 1980 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Live in Japan	Released: 1983 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
It's Too Hot for Words	Released: 1982 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP

Sparrow Quartet

Title	Album details
Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet	Released: May 20, 2008 Label: Nettwerk Format: CD, digital download
The Sparrow Quartet EP	Released: May 29, 2009 Label: Nettwerk Format: CD

Abigail Washburn

Title	Album details
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn	Released: October 7, 2014 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP digital download
Banjo Banjo	Released: February 5, 2016 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, digital download, streaming
Echo in the Valley	Released: October 20, 2017 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP, digital download, streaming

Collaborations

Title	Album details
Fiddle Tunes for Banjo (Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, and Béla Fleck)	Release 1981 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
Snakes Alive! (Jerry Douglas, Blaine Sprouse, Pat Enright, Roland White, Mark Hembree, and Béla Fleck as Dreadful Snakes)	Released: 1983 Label: Rounder Format: Vinyl, LP
The Telluride Sessions (Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, and Sam Bush, Béla Fleck as Strength in Numbers)	Released: 1989 Label: MCA Nashville Format: Vinyl, LP
Solo Banjo Works (Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck)	Released: 1992 Label: Rounder Format: CD
Tabula Rasā (Jie-Bing Chen, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and Béla Fleck)	Released: July 2, 1996 Label: Water Lily Acoustics Format: CD
Uncommon Ritual (Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, and Béla Fleck)	Released: September 30, 1997 Label: Sony Classical Format: CD
The Enchantment (Chick Corea and Béla Fleck)	Released: May 22, 2007 Label: Concord Format: CD
The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio (Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, and Béla Fleck with Rakesh Chaurasia)	Released: August 25, 2009 Label: Koch Format: CD, digital download
Across the Imaginary Divide (Marcus Roberts and Béla Fleck)	Released: June 5, 2012 Label: Rounder Format: CD, digital download
Two (Chick Corea and Béla Fleck)	Released: September 11, 2015 Label: Stretch Format: Digital download, streaming
The Ripple Effect (Toumani Diabaté and Béla Fleck)	Released: March 27, 2020 Label: Craft Format: Vinyl, LP, digital download, streaming
"As We Speak"[3] (Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, and Béla Fleck with Rakesh Chaurasia)	Release: May 12, 2023 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Digital download, streaming
Remembrance (Chick Corea and Béla Fleck)[4]	Released: May 10, 2024 Label: Thirty Tigers Format: Digital download, streaming

Live albums

Title	Album details
Music for Two (Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck)	Released: May 24, 2004 Label: Sony Classical Format: CD

Compilation albums

Title	Album details
Daybreak	Release 1987 Label: Rounder Format: CD
Places	Released: 1988 Label: Rounder Format: CD

Singles

As lead artist

Title	Year	Album
"Pile-Up" (with Edgar Meyer)	2004	Music For Two
"The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude 24 in B Minor BMV 869" (Arr. B. Fleck & E. Meyer) (with Edgar Meyer)
"Sunrise" (featuring Sam Bush)	2018	Non-album single
Come All Ye Coal Miners / Take Me to Harlan (with Abigail Washburn)		Echo in the Valley
"Christmas Time's a Coming (And I Know I'm Staying Home) (with Abigail Washburn)	2020	Non-album single
"Charm School" (featuring Billy Strings and Chris Thile)	2021	My Bluegrass Heart
"Vertigo" (featuring Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Bryan Sutton)
"Wheels Up" (featuring Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle)
"Owl's Misfortune"[3] (with Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)	2023	As We Speak
"Unidentified Piece for Banjo"[2]		Rhapsody in Blue
"Rhapsody in Blue (grass)"[5]	2024
"Remembrance" (with Chick Corea)		Remembrance"
"Juno" (with Chick Corea)
"Sakkarakaari" - Tamil (with Raghu Dixit and Madhan Karky)		Non-album singles
"Sakkarakaari" - Hindi (with Raghu Dixit and Neeraj Rajawat)
"Chakkera Pilla" - Telugu (with Raghu Dixit and Kittu Vissapragada
"Let the Creek Rise" (with Bill Evans and Jerry Douglas

As featured artist

Title	Year	Album	Ref.
"Don't Drink the Water" (Dave Matthews Band featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck)	1998	Before These Crowded Streets	[A][6][B][7][C][8][D][9][E][10][F][11]
"Stars" (Bootsy Collins with Dr. Cornel West featuring EmiSunshine, Chew Fu, Uche’ Ndubizu, Steve Jordan, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Victor Wooten, Brian Culbertson, Az Yet, Olvido Ruiz, Manou Gallo, and Béla Fleck)	2020	Non-album singles	[12]
"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (The Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Béla Fleck)	2021		[13]
"Better 'N You" (Allan Corby featuring Béla Fleck)	2022
"Eye of the Tiger" (Scary Pockets featuring Mario Jose and Béla Fleck)	2023
"Sakkare Chakori" - Kannada (Raghu Dixit and Kiran Kaverappa featuring Béla Fleck)	2024

Music videos

Title	Year	Artist(s)	Album	Ref.
"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" (featuring Pilobolus)				[14]

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.

Title	Year	Artist(s)	Album	Notes
—	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

Title	Year	Credited artist(s)	Album	Ref.
"Crooked Smile"	1985	Sam Bush	Late as Usual
—		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"				[15]
—		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 (featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck)
"Zenergy"	1999	Victor Wooten (featuring Carter Beauford and Béla Fleck)	Yin-Yang
"Dance On Your Head"		Leftover Salmon (featuring Jeff Coffin, Reese Wynans, and Béla Fleck)	The Nashville Sessions
"Up On the Hill Where We Do the Boogie"		Leftover Salmon (featuring Reese Wynans and Béla Fleck)
"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	[16]
"Bread Line Blues"
"Down the Old Plank Road"		The Chieftans (with John Hiatt, Jeff White, Tim O'Brien, and Béla Fleck)	Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
"Dark as a Dungeon"		The Chieftans (with Vince Gill and Béla Fleck)
"Molly Bán (Bawn)"		The Chieftans (with Alison Krauss and Béla Fleck)
"Give the Fiddler a Dram"
"Bonnaroo Traveler"		Edgar Meyer	Live From Bonnaroo Music Festival 2002
"Amazing Grace"	2003	Rory Gallagher	Wheels Within Wheels	[17]
"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 (featuring Béla Fleck)	The Deepest End: Live in Concert
"Lay of the Sunflower"
"Força"		Nelly Furtado	Folklore	[18]
—		Michael Card	A Fragile Stone
	2004	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	[19]
—		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	[20]
—	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 (featuring Zionplanet-10, Dennis Chambers, and Béla Fleck)	Tha Funk Capital of the World	[21]
"Midnight Moonlight"	2013	Jerry Garcia Band (featuring Béla Fleck)	Garcia Live Volume Two
"The Harder They Come"
"Heart of the Dreamer"	2015	Steve Martin and Edie Brickell	So Familiar	[22]
"Focus Poem"	2018	Jonathan Scales	Pillar
"No Fear"	2019	Grégoire Maret and Edmar Castañeda (featuring Béla Fleck)	Harp vs. Harp
"Santa Morena"
—		Roger Burn	Trilogy (A Tribute To Roger Burn & Shapes)	[23]
"Line and Lure"	2022	Cory Wong (featuring Béla Fleck)	Power Station
"Pebbles"
"Brown Ferry Blues	2024	Terry Trischka (featuring Billy Strings)	Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs	[24]
"—" denotes he wasn't on one song, but an entire album.

Footnotes

1. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 23 on Billboard's Active Rock charts
2. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 19 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay charts
3. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 50 on Billboard's Radio Songs charts
4. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 4 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay charts
5. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 3 on RPM's Alternative Rock charts
6. "Drink the Water" featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck peaked at No. 34 on RPM's Singles charts

References

1. Hudak, Joseph (July 28, 2021). "Béla Fleck Previews New Bluegrass Album With Billy Strings, Chris Thile Collab 'Charm School'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
2. Lawless, John (December 11, 2023). "Béla Fleck's banjo tackles George Gershwin". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
3. "Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain Announce New LP 'As We Speak' with Rakesh Chaurasia". Relix. March 3, 2023. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
4. Flynn, Mike (April 15, 2024). "Chick Corea & Béla Fleck's final Duo recordings to be released as 'Remembrance' album". Jazzwise. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
5. Lawless, John (January 5, 2024). "Rhapsody in Blue(grass) from Béla Fleck". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
6. "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Active Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
7. "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Radio Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
8. "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Mainstream Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
9. "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
10. "Rock/Alternative - Volume 67, No. 12)" (PDF). Library and Archives Canada. RPM. June 15, 1998. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
11. "Top Singles - Volume 67, No. 11)" (PDF). Library and Archives Canada. RPM. June 8, 1998. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
12. Boggiano, Bryan (June 12, 2020). "Bootsy Collins Collaborates With Dr. Cornel West, Steve Jordan and Bela Fleck On New Uplifting Track 'Stars' With Proceeds Benefiting MusiCares". mxdwn Music. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
13. "Blind Boys of Alabama and Bela Fleck team up for Record Store Day 2021". Single Lock Records. April 8, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
14. Crawford, Robert (August 23, 2018). "Abigail Washburn Clogs, Bela Fleck Riffs on the Banjo in 'Take Me to Harlan' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
15. Himes, Geoffrey (March 12, 1993). "Chieftains Behind Us, Chieftains Ahead". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
16. "Jorma Kaukonen Celebrates the Release of His Columbia Records Debut Blue Country Heart". Sony. May 22, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
17. Hagerman, Brent (June 1, 2003). "Rory Gallagher - Wheels Within Wheels". Exclaim!. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
18. Alter, Gaby (June 1, 2006). "Nelly Furtado - Folklore With a Pop Infusion". MixOnline.com. Mix. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
19. Oksenhorn, Stewart (August 24, 2006). "Slidewinder Jerry Douglas". The Aspen Times. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
20. Sclafani, Tony (December 17, 2007). "Keller Williams: 12". PopMatters. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
21. Brown, Corey (April 26, 2011). "Bootsy Collins Releases Tha Funk Capital Of The World". No Treble. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
22. "Steve Martin & Edie Brickell". Rounder Records. 24 September 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
23. "Roger Burn - Trilogy (A Tribute To Roger Burn & Shapes)". Blue Canoe Records. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
24. Hudak, Joseph (January 12, 2024). "Hear Billy Strings Join Banjo Great Tony Trischka on a Fiery Salute to Earl Scruggs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 14, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Béla Fleck discography at AllMusic
• Béla Fleck discography discography at Discogs
• Béla Fleck discography discography at MusicBrainz