Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn Share ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ Video

Last month Rounder Records issued Echo In The Valley, a new album recorded by husband-wife banjo pickers Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn. The couple has shared a video for the album’s single “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” through an exclusive Billboard premiere.

The follow-up to Fleck and Washburn’s 2014 self-titled debut album was recorded by the pair exclusively on seven different banjos “ranging from a ukulele to an upright bass banjo.” The resulting 11-song effort extensively demonstrated three finger and clawhammer picking styles. Arrangements of the tracks, which were primarily co-written by Bela and Abigail, were required to be recreated in the live setting.

“This song in particular is a little complicated. I guess you could say it’s hard to tap your foot throughout the whole thing,” Washburn told Billboard. “One of the things we wanted to do was show people, on our instruments, what’s happening and use the (video) to help people understand the song musically.”

Fleck pays a cello banjo and Washburn plays a fretless banjo in the Alex Chaloff-directed video for “Don’t Let It Bring You Down.”

“A lot of times doing videos to the camera can be pretty static or canned looking,” added Fleck. “But this idea that we’re looking at each other and engaging with each other, I thought that really helped the feeling of video a lot. He had a track built around us and the camera guys spinning around and around at different speeds to create excitement. I think it was a neat idea.”

Watch “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” via Billboard below: