Fair Weather, by Alison Brown

Fair Weather

by Alison Brown

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1.	Late On Arrival 02:32	info	buy track
2.	Fair Weather 03:06	info	buy track
3.	Poe's Pickin' Party 03:45	info	buy track
4.	Everyday I Write The Book 03:30	info	buy track
5.	The Devil Went Down To Berkeley 04:23	info	buy track
6.	Hummingbird 03:58	info	buy track
7.	Girl's Breakdown 03:44	info	buy track
8.	Everybody's Talkin' 03:47	info	buy track
9.	Deep Gap 03:54	info	buy track
10.	Shake And Howdy 03:14	info	buy track
11.	Leaving Cottondale 03:21	info	buy track
12.	Sweet Thing 01:42	info	buy track

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Alison Brown’s 2000 classic album celebrates its 20 year anniversary with a limited release vinyl. Joined by special guests including Tim O’Brien, Claire Lynch, Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, David Grier, and featuring the Grammy Award-winning track “Leaving Cottondale,” with Béla Fleck, Fair Weather heralded Alison Brown’s return to her bluegrass roots with stunning results. Over the course of the album’s 12 tracks, Brown plows through hard-charging breakdowns, minor-keyed newgrass, solo-banjo lullabies, and everything in between. Vince Gill sings the bright title track and Claire Lynch handles vocals on the delightful “Hummingbird.” Covers of Elvis Costello’s “Everyday I Write the Book” (sung by Bush) and Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” (sung by O’Brien) lend themselves well to a bluegrass treatment and are complimented by the likes of “Shake and Howdy,” an intricate, classically tinged instrumental featuring Darol Anger and Mike Marshall. The unifying musical core of it all is Brown’s compositional sense and mesmerizing banjo work, with the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities of her banjo always front and center.

Brown has received four GRAMMY nominations for her solo recordings and a GRAMMY award in 2001 for Best Country Instrumental Performance as well as the International Bluegrass Music Association’s award for Banjo Player of the Year. A former member of Alison Krauss and Union Station, Brown has been praised for her take on the traditionally Appalachian instrument which has earned her features on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and in The Wall Street Journal among others. In 2019, she became the newest five string banjoist to be inducted into the American Banjo Museum’s Hall of Fame.

“Like James Taylor’s voice or B.B. King’s guitar, Alison Brown’s banjo is an instrument possessed of a unique sonic signature and an inescapable beauty.” —Billboard Magazine

credits

released May 9, 2000

Produced by Garry West
Recorded and mixed by Dave Sinko at Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN
Assisted by Tim Carter
Mastered by Randy LeRoy at Final Stage, Nashville, TN
Photography by Tony Baker
Hair and make-up by Lorrie Turk
Design by Griffin Norman @ Box
Vince Gill appears courtesy of MCA Nashville / Béla Fleck appears courtesy of Columbia Records
Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas appear courtesy of Sugar Hill Records / Tim O’Brien appears courtesy of Howdy Skies Records
Stuart Duncan and Gene Libbea appear courtesy of Sugar Hill Records and The Nashville Bluegrass Band
Stuart Duncan and Tony Rice appear courtesy of Rounder Records

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Alison Brown Nashville, Tennessee

As Amelia Earhart is to aviation, as Julia Child is to the culinary arts, Alison Brown is to the five-string banjo. She created a seismic shift in the instrument’s history when her wholly individual style gained her entry into the elite class of acknowledged banjo innovators. The GRAMMY Award winner, and co-founder of Compass Records, is considered among the world’s foremost banjo composers. ... more

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Jun 6

Infinity Hall

Norfolk, CT
Jun 13

Nevada County Fairgrounds

Grass Valley, CA
Jun 14

Freight & Salvage

Berkeley, CA
Aug 8

Narrows Center for the Arts

Fall River, MA

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