Béla Fleck discography
Studio albums25
Live albums1
Compilation albums1
Music videos3
Singles10
As featured artist5
Collaboration albums12
Other appearances76

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), 12 collaboration albums, one live albums, three music videos, 15 singles (ten as lead artist and five as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.

Albums

Studio albums

Solo albums

Title Album details
Crossing the Tracks
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
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
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

The New Grass Revival

Tasty Licks

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

Spectrum

Title Album details
Opening Roll
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
The Sparrow Quartet EP
  • Released: May 29, 2009
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD

Abigail Washburn

Title Album details
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
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)
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)
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)
Uncommon Ritual
(Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, and Béla Fleck)
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)
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)
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

Live albums

Title Album details
Music for Two
(Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck)

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Daybreak
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)"[4] 2024
Title Year Album Ref.
"Don't Drink the Water"
(Dave Matthews Band featuring Alanis Morissette and Béla Fleck)		 1998 Before These Crowded Streets [upper-alpha 1][5][upper-alpha 2][6][upper-alpha 3][7][upper-alpha 4][8][upper-alpha 5][9][upper-alpha 6][10]
"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 [11]
"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free"
(The Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Béla Fleck)		 2021 [12]
"Better 'N You"
(Allan Corby featuring Béla Fleck)		 2022
"Eye of the Tiger"
(Scary Pockets featuring Mario Jose and Béla Fleck)		 2023

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)		 [13]

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" [14]
— 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 [15]
"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 [16]
"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 [17]
— 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 [18]
— 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 [19]
— 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 [20]
"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 [21]
"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) [22]
"Line and Lure" 2022 Cory Wong
(featuring Béla Fleck)		 Power Station
"Pebbles"
"Brown Ferry Blues (Terry Trischka featuring Billy Strings) 2024 Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs [23]
"—" 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. 1 2 Lawless, John (December 11, 2023). "Béla Fleck's banjo tackles George Gershwin". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "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. ↑ Lawless, John (January 5, 2024). "Rhapsody in Blue(grass) from Béla Fleck". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Active Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Radio Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Mainstream Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Dave Matthews Band Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 67, No. 12)" (PDF). Library and Archives Canada. RPM. June 15, 1998. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Top Singles - Volume 67, No. 11)" (PDF). Library and Archives Canada. RPM. June 8, 1998. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ "Blind Boys of Alabama and Bela Fleck team up for Record Store Day 2021". Single Lock Records. April 8, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Himes, Geoffrey (March 12, 1993). "Chieftains Behind Us, Chieftains Ahead". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Jorma Kaukonen Celebrates the Release of His Columbia Records Debut Blue Country Heart". Sony. May 22, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  16. ↑ Hagerman, Brent (June 1, 2003). "Rory Gallagher - Wheels Within Wheels". Exclaim!. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  17. ↑ Alter, Gaby (June 1, 2006). "Nelly Furtado - Folklore With a Pop Infusion". MixOnline.com. Mix. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  18. ↑ Oksenhorn, Stewart (August 24, 2006). "Slidewinder Jerry Douglas". The Aspen Times. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  19. ↑ Sclafani, Tony (December 17, 2007). "Keller Williams: 12". PopMatters. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  20. ↑ Brown, Corey (April 26, 2011). "Bootsy Collins Releases Tha Funk Capital Of The World". No Treble. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Steve Martin & Edie Brickell". Rounder Records. 24 September 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  22. ↑ "Roger Burn - Trilogy (A Tribute To Roger Burn & Shapes)". Blue Canoe Records. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  23. ↑ 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.
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