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Needless to say, her parents weren’t pleased. Brown jokes that they once told her that she could be a successful lawyer or doctor and talk about the banjo at dinner parties. Despite any reservations they had, though, their daughter had the musician?...
...teenager, Brown hung out at the local Shakey’s pizza, where the San Diego Bluegrass Club held its monthly meetings. Inspired by her fellow banjo fanatics, Brown began to play more and more often, jamming in parking lots. She even mastered the difficult three-finger style of her first inspiration, Earl Scruggs, using metal picks on the index and middle fingers and a plastic thumb pick for a unique sound...
...famous Nashville Bluegrass Band. Barely 15 years old, the two hit the regional competition circuit during summer vacations and recorded an album, Pre-Sequel. In 1978, with Duncan’s father acting as escort and transport, the two teens criss-crossed the continent. Brown won the Canadian National Banjo Championship and played at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry...
After three years plucking the banjo with Krauss, Brown joined Michelle Shocked on tour. There she met bassist Garry West, who was impressed by more than her banjo skills. The two clicked instantly, and have been inseparable since. In 1995, the couple decided that Brown’s background in business and West’s in record management, combined with their shared love of music, would converge quite nicely into their own record label. Compass Records was born, and in 1998, the two cemented their partnership in marriage. Their daughter Hannah is now eight months old. West says that...
...band. The Alison Brown Quartet consists of keyboardist John R. Burr, West on bass and drummer Kendrick Freeman. Critics praise the group’s interesting twist on bluegrass music, bringing in jazz, world rhythms, folk and classical. “In Brown’s hands, the banjo is capable of fluid musical phrases of boundless beauty,” Billboard Magazine writes...