Full performer name: Tony Trischka/Bill Keith/Bela Fleck. Personnel: Tony Trischka, Bill Keith (banjo); Bela Fleck (guitar, banjo); Dede Wyland (vocals); Russ Barenberg, Alan Senauke, Glenn Lawson (guitar); Jay Ungar (mandolin, fiddle); Andy Statman, Jimmy Gaudreau, Gordon Titcomb (mandolin); Sam Bush, Darol Anger, Kenny Kosek, Matt Glaser, Larry Campbell (fiddle); Roger Mason, Lincoln Schleifer, Mark Shatz, Roger Mason (bass). All tracks have been digitally remastered. Originally released in 1981, this 1999 reissue adds a couple of bonus songs making for a fine 16-track set. These three banjo players are greatly responsible for the resurgence and expansion of the instrument in the last three decades of the 20th century. Bill Keith first began exploring fiddle repertoire on the banjo in the '60s. Bela Fleck, the youngest of the trio at just 22 when this set was recorded, took his first banjo lessons from Tony Trischka. The three men perform three selections together, with the remaining featuring them individually. Additional accompaniment--which varies from song to song--is provided by players utilizing bass, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. The music is at once inventive, as the repertoire of one instrument is adapted to another, and traditional.

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Full performer name: Tony Trischka/Bill Keith/Bela Fleck. Personnel: Tony Trischka, Bill Keith (banjo); Bela Fleck (guitar, banjo); Dede Wyland (vocals); Russ Barenberg, Alan Senauke, Glenn Lawson (guitar); Jay Ungar (mandolin, fiddle); Andy Statman, Jimmy Gaudreau, Gordon Titcomb (mandolin); Sam Bush, Darol Anger, Kenny Kosek, Matt Glaser, Larry Campbell (fiddle); Roger Mason, Lincoln Schleifer, Mark Shatz, Roger Mason (bass). All tracks have been digitally remastered. Originally released in 1981, this 1999 reissue adds a couple of bonus songs making for a fine 16-track set. These three banjo players are greatly responsible for the resurgence and expansion of the instrument in the last three decades of the 20th century. Bill Keith first began exploring fiddle repertoire on the banjo in the '60s. Bela Fleck, the youngest of the trio at just 22 when this set was recorded, took his first banjo lessons from Tony Trischka. The three men perform three selections together, with the remaining featuring them individually. Additional accompaniment--which varies from song to song--is provided by players utilizing bass, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. The music is at once inventive, as the repertoire of one instrument is adapted to another, and traditional.