The Song of the Banjo, by Alison Brown

The Song of the Banjo

by Alison Brown

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1.	The Song of the Banjo 04:56	info	buy track
2.	Dance With Me (with Rob Ickes) 04:24	info	buy track
3.	Carolina In the Pines (with Indigo Girls) 04:57	info	buy track
4.	A Long Way Gone 04:17	info	buy track
5.	Windansea 04:05	info	buy track
6.	Time After Time 04:48	info	buy track
7.	Stuff Happens 04:24	info	buy track
8.	I'll Never Fall In Love Again (with Colin Hay) 03:37	info	buy track
9.	Airish 04:17	info	buy track
10.	Feel So Good (with Jake Shimabukuro) 04:55	info	buy track
11.	The Moon In Molly's Eyes 04:03	info	buy track
12.	Musette for the Last Fret 02:03	info	buy track

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With: Indigo Girls, Colin Hay, Keb' Mo', Jake Shimabukuro, Rob Ickes and Steve Gadd.

With The Song of the Banjo, her first album since 2009, GRAMMY-winning musician/composer/producer/entrepreneur Alison Brown plants another flag in her journey of musical exploration.

Acclaimed as one of today’s finest progressive 5-string banjo players, the 2015 IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award/2014 United States Artist Fellowship recipient and Compass Records co-founder mixes seven masterful originals with six surprising covers of pop and rock classics from the ‘70s and ‘80s (“Dance With Me,” “Feels So Good,” “Time After Time,” “Carolina in the Pines” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” and the Deluxe Edition CD bonus track, “What’s Going On”), boldly going where no banjo album has gone before.

For their mission, Brown and her co-producer, husband, label co-founder and bassist Garry West have assembled an equally unconventional all-star ensemble, including Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, Keb’ Mo’, Colin Hay, uke master Jake Shimabukuro, legendary studio drummer Steve Gadd, fiddler Stuart Duncan, Irish phenom guitarist John Doyle, bassist Todd Phillips, guitarist Jim Oblon, Dobro player Rob Ickes and pianists Will Barrow, Joe Davidian and John Jarvis.

Combining stunning virtuosity and unerring taste, Brown, with her signature model Prucha banjo (and on “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” a custom wood-body banjola), creates a roots rainbow of folk, jazz, pop, Celtic, classical, Latin and Americana.

For Brown, arranging recent classics from The Great American Songbook for the Great American Instrument makes the listener hear banjo in a new way. “Most listeners don’t know how to hear what a banjo is doing, but in the context of a familiar tune they are able to hear the voice of the instrument, and understand what’s unique about how it’s played.”

Dynamic, introspective and even romantic, The Song of the Banjo is an album for people who didn’t know they liked the banjo. For banjo lovers, Alison Brown’s new CD rekindles that affair.

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released October 9, 2015

Produced by Garry West and Alison Brown
Recorded by Sean Sullivan | Mixed by Gordon Hammond at Compass Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
Additional recording by Justin Francis, John Caldwell, Chad Brown, Kyle Ginther, and Gordon Hammond
at Compass Sound Studio, Milan Bertosa in Honolulu, HI, John Doyle in Asheville, NC, and Colin Hay in Topanga, CA.

Mastered by Randy LeRoy at Airshow, Tacoma Park, MD
Photography by Brett Warren | brettwarrenphotography.com
Styling by Melanie Shelly | www.melanieshelley.com
Package design by Robert Hakalski | www.vmdigital.com

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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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