Two very different virtuoso renditions of a hauting melody by the same artist

[DFW]

With two completely different groups:
Béla Fleck and his tune "Big Country" first with his jazz-fusion group, the Flecktones, and then with Dobro genius Jerry Douglas and some of Ireland's best folk instrumentalists. Same tune, interpretations from different planets.

and then this incredible rendition

It's still Béla's tune, but WOW!!

[yonder]

1. Nice tune. The Iroid in me favors the second.

[highplainsdem]

3. I like the first video. But the second one is stunning. One of those

performances I have to hear again immediately.

[BluesRunTheGame]

4. The "Live at the Quick" version featured a few non-Flecktone guests.

Paul Hanson on bassoon.
Paul McCandless on soprano and sopranino saxes.
Andy Narell on steepans and synth.

I found a video of Bela talking about composing “Big Country”. At the end he plays it all the way through solo.

[DFW]

5. I thought of the "Quick" concert as an expanded version of the Flecktones.

He always brought in people from wherever, India, Mongolia, he really is a visionary.