NEW DEC 2007: Limited Edition
Alison Brown Quartet "Evergreen"
(Compass 4470)
Alison and the band went into the Compass studio last fall to record some of their favorite tunes from their Winter's Eve holiday program and the result is "Evergreen".
Just released, and not available in stores, this 8 song collection includes fun and imaginative re-workings of holiday classics with that distinctive ABQ sound. Fiddler/mandolinist Joe Craven is the special guest throughout, and the University School of Nashville Middle School Chorale joins the band on 2 tracks.
This unique recording is perfect for the acoustic music fan on your holiday shopping list. NOTE: The first 100 CDs ordered will be autographed by Alison.
Limited availability - ORDER HERE
Nashville, TN, March 10, 2005 - Grammy Award winner Alison Brown has announced her new album, Stolen Moments, will be released on Compass Records on May 10, 2005. Stolen Moments is the follow up album to 2000’s Fair Weather.
The title of Brown’s May 10 release, Stolen Moments, is a nod to the task of balancing work and parenthood with her own creativity. “We were literally stealing moments in between everything else,” she said of both the writing and recording of the CD. “We would do a take, then run down to the office and answer emails or make sure the three o’clock babysitter had shown up before the morning babysitter left."
Yet the fluid musicality and genre-blending acoustic underpinnings of Stolen Moments hardly hint at these challenges. In Brown’s estimation, it’s her most musically successful record to date. “For the first time, I feel like I’ve created a true hybrid sound that suggests its influences – bluegrass, jazz, celtic music – but when taken as a whole isn’t any one of these things. It may not be easy to put a label on it, but that’s fine with me since that’s the musical world I live in as a musician and with Compass Records. To my ear, Stolen Moments comes off as a very accessible and listenable record with a consistent sound from track to track.”
Anchored by Brown’s technically rich and highly musical banjo, instrumental tracks range from the odd meter newgrass hoedown of The Magnificent Seven to the more delicate jazz-hued sensibility of The Pirate Queen and the Gregorian chant-inspired Carrowkeel. Playmates include bluegrass greats Sam Bush (mandolin) and Stuart Duncan (fiddle) as well as Irish mavericks John Doyle (guitar) and Seamus Egan (flute), ex-Pretenders and Paul McCartney Band guitarist Robbie McIntosh and long time bandmate John R. Burr (piano). Also featured on the album are guest vocalists the Indigo Girls, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Andrea Zonn.
