JazzTimes (3/97, p.79) - "A live performance by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is a celebration of the joy derived from making complex music that's fun at heart..."
Musician (2/97, pp.125-126) - "...The collective virtuosity is stunning--like Jaco Pastorius two decades before, Wooten has redefined the bass....the Flecktones manage the difficult task of making intensely complex music accessible and fun....these guys love playing together, and it shows..."
NME (Magazine) (7/19/97, p.40) - "...it's really rather spendid, in a kind of self-indulgent and completely mad way....Marvellous."
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Bela Fleck (6-string, electric & electric synth banjos, banjo); Victor Lemonte Wooten (vocals, banjo, cello, tenor & fretless basses, bass); Future Man (percussion, zendrum, synth-axe drumitar).
Additional personnel: Sam Bush (vocals, mandolin, fiddle); Bruce Hornsby (vocals, piano); John Cowan (vocals); Paul McCandless (sopranino & soprano saxophones, English horn, penny whistle, bass clarinet); Branford Marsalis (soprano saxophone); Howard Levy (harmonica, keyboards); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Chick Corea (piano, zendrum); Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass).
Recorded live between 1992 and 1996. Includes liner notes by Bela Fleck, Victor Lemonte Wooten and Future Man.
"The Sinister Minister" won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.