You’d find little debate about calling Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn the king and queen of the banjo—Fleck, a master who has won 15 Grammy awards and taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Washburn as someone who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds.
Stripped down to its raw elements, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn gives everything the duo needs to deliver a modern masterpiece of Americana: two banjos, two voices, and occasional percussion vibrating dust off the wooden floorboards.