''Little Worlds'' is the tenth album by

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones Béla may refer to: * Béla (crater), an elongated lunar crater * Béla (given name), a common Hungarian male given name See also * Bela (disambiguation) * Belá (disambiguation) * Bělá (disambiguation) Bělá, derived from ''bílá'' (''whit ...

, released in 2003. The album was released as a 3-disc set. Ten tracks from the set were also released on a single disc called ''Ten from Little Worlds''. The album contains several tracks that are hidden at the beginning and end of Disc One and at the end of Disc Three. These hidden tracks present a short and humorous story of two men, voiced by

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outfielder

Bernie Williams Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr. (born September 13, 1968) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and a musician. He played his entire 16-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006. ...

and

Michael McKean Michael John McKean (; born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician known for various roles in film and television such as Lenny Kosnowski in ''Laverne & Shirley'', David St. Hubbins in ''T ...

(as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap), stuck in traffic and flipping through different radio stations. The songs they hear are songs from the album played in different styles and on different instruments. For example, the slow and soothing song "Poindexter" is featured but redone as a heavy metal song with each band member playing an instrument different from his ordinary one. The redone version is also complete with rhythmic screaming to which one of the men listening in the car makes the comment "I don't even know what they are saying."

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic Zac Johnson wrote the "three-CD concept album has ambitious intentions, but ultimately ends up feeling a bit scattered... Still, every note is impeccably played and pristinely recorded, and those Flecktones fans who like to pull apart their extremely technical pieces of music, analyze them, and put them back together will find hours of rabid discussion on Little Worlds." Doug Collette, writing for

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, praised the album's packaging, sound quality and conception: "Lest you think Little Worlds is an exercise in esoteric self-indulgence, pay attention to the way the album flows over the course of the three discs. While much of the early going insinuates itself gently through the recurring use of Celtic melodic themes, there’s a distinct if understated increase in the intensity of the music between the first disc and the second. The appearance of guitarist Derek Trucks... on 'Pineapple Heart' ratchets up the visceral momentum of the music another level altogether, while 'The Last Jam' brings this entire affair to an emphatic climax." Critic Thom Jurek called the album an "outrageous exercise in self-indulgence... so excessive that Sony issued a single-disc sampler from the set hoping it would sell."

Track listing

;Disc one "Bil Mon" is preceded by a

pregap The pregap on a Red Book audio CD is the portion of the audio track that precedes "index 01" for a given track in the table of contents (TOC). The pregap ("index 00") is typically two seconds long and usually, but not always, contains silence. Po ...

hidden track In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to ...

. #" Bil Mon" (

Bill Monroe William Smith "Bill" Monroe (; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who created the bluegrass music genre. Because of this, he is often called the " Father of Bluegrass". The genre take ...

The Flecktones ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

) – 8:42 #"

The Ballad of Jed Clampett "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" is the theme song for the television series ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' and the later movie of that name, providing the introductory story for the series. The song was composed by Paul Henning, and recorded first by ...

" (with

Bobby McFerrin Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American folk and jazz singer. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also ra ...

Divinity Roxx and

Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

) (

Paul Henning Paul William Henning (September 16, 1911 – March 25, 2005) was an American TV producer and screenwriter. Most famous for creating the television sitcom ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', he was also crucial in developing the "rural" comedies ''Pett ...

) – 4:06 #"Puffy" (The Flecktones) – 6:45 #"New Math" (

Béla Fleck Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, bringing the instrument from its bluegrass roots to jazz, classi ...

Roy Wooten Roy Wilfred Wooten (born October 13, 1957), also known as RoyEl, best known by his stage name Future Man (also written Futureman and known to fans as Futche) is an American musician, inventor and composer. He is best known as a member of jazz ...

) – 6:59 #"Longitude" (

Victor Wooten Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the band SMV with two other ...

/B. Fleck) – 3:04 #"Latitude" (V. Wooten/B. Fleck) – 5:04 #"Centrifuge" (with

Derek Trucks Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. In 2010, he formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, blues sin ...

) (The Flecktones) – 2:05 #"Off the Top (The Gravity Wheel)" (with

Nickel Creek Nickel Creek (formerly known as the Nickel Creek Band) is an American bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), and siblings Sara Watkins (fiddle) and Sean Watkins (guitar). Formed in 1989 in Southern California, they released six a ...

) (B. Fleck) – 4:54 #"Off the Top (Line Dance)" (with Nickel Creek) (B. Fleck) – 4:55 #:"Hidden Track/Follow the Line" – 0:48 ;Disc two #

"The Fjords of Oslo" (The Flecktones) – 0:41 #"Sherpa" (with Bobby McFerrin) (

Jeff Coffin Jeff Coffin (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. In July 2008, Coffin began to ...

) – 5:20 #"What It Is" (with Bobby McFerrin) (B. Fleck/

) – 3:41 #"The Leaning Tower" (with

The Chieftains The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous ...

) (B. Fleck)– 6:06 #"Mudslingers of the Milky Way" (B. Fleck) – 6:14 #"Captive Delusions" (with

Branford Marsalis Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical en ...

) (B. Fleck) – 3:54 #"Costa Brava" (B. Fleck) – 8:23 #"Poindexter" (with

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. Career In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he ha ...

) (B. Fleck)– 5:38 #"Prequel" (B. Fleck) – 3:14 #"Return of the Mudslingers" (with Branford Marsalis) (B. Fleck) – 2:50 ;Disc three #

"The Cave" (R. Wooten) – 1:35 #"Next" (B. Fleck/V. Wooten) – 5:56 #"Pineapple Heart" (with Derek Trucks/Sam Bush) (B. Fleck) – 5:06 #"Snatchin (J. Coffin) – 4:47 #"Reminiscence" (V. Wooten) – 5:33 #"Sleeper" (with Bobby McFerrin) (B. Fleck) – 12:16 #"Flunky" (B. Fleck) – 0:39 #"The Last Jam" (with Derek Trucks/Jerry Douglas/Bernie Williams) (The Flecktones) – 4:26 #:Hidden Track/The End – 1:11

Personnel

;The Flecktones *

–

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(tracks 3, 6, 8, 9, 11–13, 16–18, 21, 22, 24-27),

gut string Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines. Catgut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines, but occasionally use the intestines of cattle, hogs, horses, m ...

banjo (track 14), electric banjo (tracks 1, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, 19, 23),

synth A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 23), reverse banjo (track 5),

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(track 10),

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music ( arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(track 10) *

–

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while t ...

(tracks 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26),

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

(tracks 1, 3, 13, 16, 24, 27),

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B teno ...

(tracks 2, 8, 9),

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

(tracks 17, 25, 27),

alto flute The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, the second-highest member below the standard C flute after the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the ...

(tracks 4, 22), clarinet (track 6),

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave be ...

(track 7), Low D

whistle A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a larg ...

(track 10), Low F whistle (track 25),

didgeridoo The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...

(track 25),

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

(tracks 2, 3, 11, 16, 22, 23, 25, 27),

finger cymbals Zills or zils (from Turkish 'cymbals'), also called finger cymbals, are small metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances. They are called () in Egypt. They are similar to Tibetan tingsha bells. In Western music, several pai ...

(track 1),

harmonizer Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered. Effects units that raise or lower pitch by a pre-designated musical interval ( transposition) are called pitch shifters. Pitch and ti ...

(track 23),

whistling Whistling without the use of an artificial whistle is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space. The a ...

(tracks 10, 25) * Future Man – Synth-Axe Drumitar (tracks 1–4, 6, 8–11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21–25, 27), X-Drum acoustic kick (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 16, 24, 25, 27), acoustic drums and

cymbals A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs soun ...

(tracks 4, 6, 11, 16, 25), acoustic

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(track 18),

cajón A cajón (; "box", "crate" or "drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes implements such as brushes, mallets, o ...

(tracks 6, 17, 19, 24, 27), Mexican

hand drum A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater. Types The following descriptions allude to traditional versions of the drums. Modern synthetic versions are ...

(track 16),

gong A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...

(track 1), acoustic

shakers The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s. They were initially ...

(track 13), Roy-El Piano (tracks 7, 20, 26), sustain pedal (track 26), vocals (tracks 3, 7, 10) *

– bass (tracks 2–11, 16, 23, 24), six string bass (tracks 14, 21, 25),

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them be ...

(tracks 1, 11, 13, 22, 27), tenor basses (track 17), acoustic hollow-body bass guitar (track 26),

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar ...

(tracks 6, 11, 17, 27),

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, ...

(track 21),

(tracks 21), Roland Sound Canvas (track 1), foot pedal synth (track 23), vocals (track 10) ;Guest artists * Derek Bell – Irish

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orch ...

(tracks 13, 25) * Paul Brantley – cello (tracks 4, 25) * Sandip Burman –

tabla A tabla, bn, তবলা, prs, طبلا, gu, તબલા, hi, तबला, kn, ತಬಲಾ, ml, തബല, mr, तबला, ne, तबला, or, ତବଲା, ps, طبله, pa, ਤਬਲਾ, ta, தபலா, te, తబల� ...

(track 25), vocals (track 25) *

–

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(tracks 2, 22) *Thetakudi Harihara Subash Chandran – vocals (track 25), jaw harp (track 25),

ghatam The ghaṭam ( sa, घटं ''ghaṭaṁ'', kan, ಘಟ ''ghaṭah'', ta, கடம் ''ghatam'', te, ఘటం ''ghatam'', ml, ഘടം, ''ghatam'') is a percussion instrument used in various repertoires across India. It's a variant ...

(tracks 21, 25) * Kevin Conneff – vocals (track 25), bodhran (track 13) *

–

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was origina ...

(tracks 17, 27),

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional a ...

(track 17) *Feng Xiu Hong – vocals (track 25) * Sean Keane –

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the ...

(tracks 13, 25) *

Kanjira Ganesh Kumar Natarajan Ganesh Kumar, popularly known as ''Kanjira Ganesh'' (born June 1, 1964) is an Indian percussionist, teacher and music composer. He develops new techniques to play the kanjira and is the first south Indian percussionist to receive a Fulb ...

–

kanjira The kanjira, khanjira, khanjiri or ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family. As a folk and bhajan instrument, it has been used in India for many centuries. The kanjira's emergence in South Indian Carnatic m ...

(tracks 21, 25), vocals (track 25) *

Pamelia Kurstin Pamelia Stickney (formerly known as Pamelia Kurstin) is an American theremin player. She has performed and recorded with many artists including David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, David Garland, Seb Rochford, Otto Lechner ...

–

theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...

(tracks 4, 11, 25), theremins (tracks 3, 24), triple theremin (track 14) *

– soprano saxophone (tracks 11, 15, 19) *

– vocals (tracks 2, 11, 12, 25) *

Matt Molloy Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at nineteen. Considered one of the most brilliant ...

–

Irish flute The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design (often with modifications to optimize its use in Ir ...

(tracks 13, 25) * Paddy Moloney –

Uillean pipes The uilleann pipes ( or , ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their ...

(tracks 4, 13) *Cyrus Niccore – didjeridoo (tracks 1, 4, 18, 27) * Congar Ol Ondar –

Tuvan throat singing Tuvan throat singing, the main technique of which is known as ''khoomei'' ( tyv, хөөмей, xöömej, mn, хөөмий; ᠬᠦᠭᠡᠮᠡᠢ, khöömii, russian: хоомей, Chinese: 呼麦, pinyin: ''hūmài''), includes a type of overto ...

(track 21) * Divinity Roxx – vocals (track 2) * Jake Shimabukuro –

ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrumen ...

(tracks 25, 27) *

Chris Thile Christopher Scott Thile (; born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive blueg ...

– mandolin (tracks 8, 9, 16) *

– electric

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

(tracks 22, 27), electric slide guitars (track 7) *

Sara Watkins Sara Ullrika Watkins (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of Nickel Creek, the progressive bluegrass group she formed with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. In add ...

– fiddle (tracks 2, 8, 9) * Sean Watkins – guitar (tracks 8, 9) *

– guitar (track 27) *

Joe Wooten Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage * ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated ...

– theremin (tracks 7, 14, 22, 27),

wah-wah pedal A wah-wah pedal, or simply wah pedal, is a type of electric guitar effects pedal that alters the tone and frequencies of the guitar signal to create a distinctive sound, mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name "wah-wah". The pe ...

(track 7)

''Ten from Little Worlds''

At the request of their record label, the Flecktones released a regular-length album simultaneously with the three-disc set. The shorter version, entitled ''Ten from Little Worlds'', contains highlights from the full album, and is only one disc long. Tracks 1, 2, 5, 9 & 10 are edited versions of the originals. The music file of Bil Mon is titled Big Mon. In his Allmusic review, music critic Zac Johnson wrote "While the full work seems a little disjointed and too expansive, the ten-song collection is a little more digestible... the unfortunate hip-hop version of Flatt & Scruggs' 'Ballad of Jed Clampett' never needed to be recorded." #"Bil Mon" (B. Monroe, The Flecktones) – 7:13 #*Bela Fleck: electric synth banjo #*Jeff Coffin: soprano sax, finger cymbals #*Victor Wooten: fretless bass, Roland Sound Canvas #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar, X-Drum acoustic kick, gong #*Cyrus Niccore: didjeridoo #"Ballad of Jed Clampett" (P. Henning) – 3:55 #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: alto sax, keyboard #*Victor Wooten: bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Bobby McFerrin: vocals #*Divinity Roxx: vocals #*Sara Watkins: fiddle #"Pineapple Heart" (B. Fleck) #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: alto flute, keyboards #*Victor Wooten: fretless bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Derek Trucks: electric guitar #*Joe Wooten: theremin #"Snatchin (J. Coffin) #*Bela Fleck: electric synth banjo #*Jeff Coffin: tenor sax with harmonizer, keyboards #*Victor Wooten: bass, foot pedal synth #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #"Next" (B. Fleck, V. Wooten) #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: tenor sax #*Victor Wooten: six-string bass, cello, keyboard #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #*Subasch Chandram: gutam #*Ganesh Kumar: kanjira #*Congar Ol Ondar: Tuvan throat singing #"The Leaning Tower" (B. Fleck) #*Bela Fleck: banjo, electric banjo, synth banjo #*Jeff Coffin: soprano sax #*Victor Wooten: fretless bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar, acoustic shakers #*Derek Bell: Irish harp #*Kevin Conneff: bodhran #*Sean Keane: fiddle #*Matt Molloy: flute #*Paddy Moloney: Uillean pipes #"Puffy" (The Flecktones) – 6:45 #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: soprano sax, keyboards #*Victor Wooten: bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar, X-Drum acoustic kick, vocals #*Pamelia Kurstin: theremins #"Sherpa" (J. Coffin) #*Bela Fleck: banjo, electric synth banjo #*Jeff Coffin: tenor sax, keyboard #*Victor Wooten: electric bass, electric standup bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar, X-Drum acoustic kick, acoustic drums and cymbals #*Pamelia Kurstin: theremin #*Branford Marsalis: soprano sax #"Off the Top (The Gravity Wheel)" (B. Fleck) #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: alto sax, tenor sax #*Victor Wooten: bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #*Chris Thile: mandolin #*Sarah Watkins: fiddle #*Sean Watkins: guitar #"Off the Top (Line Dance)" (B. Fleck) #*Bela Fleck: banjo #*Jeff Coffin: alto sax, tenor sax #*Victor Wooten: bass #*Roy Wooten: Synth-Axe Drumitar #*Chris Thile: mandolin #*Sarah Watkins: fiddle #*Sean Watkins: guitar

References

{{Authority control Béla Fleck and the Flecktones albums 2003 albums Columbia Records albums Jazz fusion albums by American artists