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...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...
...Shakey’s that she met teenage friend Stuart Duncan, now a member of the 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...
Brown quickly learned the move to Cambridge didn’t have to mean abandoning her first love. She spent her first night at Paine Hall watching the Boston Bluegrass festival. And across the hall from her room in Hurlbut, she found West Virginian bluegrass aficionado William W. Carter ’84. The two would soon spend every Saturday morning spinning folk records on their WHRB show, “Living Traditions in Bluegrass.” Brown still visits the station when she comes to Cambridge and has been interviewed on the “Hillbilly at Harvard?...
...chose the UCLA business program, and at 24 headed to San Francisco to work for Smith Barney as an investment banker. Long days crunching numbers couldn’t keep Brown away from bluegrass, though—she snuck copies of Bluegrass Unlimited behind The Bond Trader magazine. Friends remember her driving straight from the office to bluegrass clubs, business suit...
...knew she had to try. Frustrated by six fruitless months, Brown began readying her resumé for the business world. “But things kept conspiring to keep me away from ‘real’ jobs,” she laughs—namely, rising bluegrass star Alison Krauss asking Brown to join her band, Union Station...