Last fall Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn released their second full-length studio album together: Echo In The Valley. The 11-track LP includes the two master banjo players take on folk and bluegrass music. Today, the husband-wife duo shared a single that marries two songs from their sophomore album, which was originally presented as the soundtrack for a video featuring dance troupe Pilobolus.
Fleck and Washburn fused the modern with the traditional by pairing “Come All You Coal Miners” with “Take Me To Harlan.” Appalachian balladeer Sarah Ogan Gunning wrote the former, while Fleck and Washburn wrote the latter. The duo the will return to the road in support of the record this November with a tour that stretches into early next year. Listen to “Come All You Coal Miners / Take Me To Harlan” below:
