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 e-mails or make sure the three o’clock babysitter had shown up before the morning babysitter left." 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."
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.