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Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: Blu-Bop

By Geno Thackara
February 11, 2025
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This group's recipe does have some blues and bop buried in there somewhere, sure, although they also pack it with several houses' worth of kitchen sinks while twisting your mind and their fingers into pretzels. This one has still aged surprisingly well, even with echo-toned banjo and the frisky beats of a custom guitar-turned-MIDI-percussion device. Well, it was the '90s.

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