''Fluxedo'' is the second album by

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars 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 originally a gui ...

player

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...

, released in 1982 (see

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). The album's title comes from Douglas' nickname of "Flux". ''Fluxedo'' is out of print although all of the tracks can be found on the compilation '' Everything Is Gonna Work Out Fine''. The type of

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shown in the cover photo is actually not a

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. A tuxedo, also known as

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is a type of male semi-formal evening wear. The clothing outfit shown in the cover photo is a type of very-formal daytime wear, known as a morning suit or

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Track listing

# "Tennessee Fluxedo" (

) – 4:51 # "

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) – 3:01 # "Intro" – 4:03 # "Tell Her Lies (and Feed Her Candy)" (Joe McCracken) – 2:13 # "

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) – 3:35 # "Nite Crawler" – 3:26 # "Cincinnati Rag" (David Franklin) – 2:28 # "Panhandle Rag" (

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) – 4:54 # "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (Robert Lee McCoy, Sylvia McKinney) – 4:15 # "Ben Dewberry's Final Run" (Andrew Jenkins) – 3:44

Personnel

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– banjo *

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– guitar *

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