Alison Brown - Fair Weather
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Artist: Alison BrownEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Compass Records
Soundtracks:
- Late on Arrival
- Fair Weather (featruing Vince Gill)
- Poe's Pickin' Party
- Everyday I Write The Book - Alison Brown
- The Devil Went Down to Berkeley
- Hummingbird (featruing Claire Lynch)
- Girl's Breakdown
- Everybody's Talkin' (featuring Tim O'Brien)
- Deep Gap
- Shake and Howdy
- Leaving Cottondale
- Sweet Thing
Music reviews of Fair Weather
Music Review: Superb Music Just Beyond Bluegrass
Rating: 5 Stars
I'm not a fan of jazzy bluegrass. I'm not a great admirer of Bela Fleck or even Psychograss. This isn't a philosophical issue or political issue with me, it's just a musical one. I don't think the music sounds good.So I was wary of Alison Brown, who is clearly of the opposite opinion. But with this record, she has won me over. This is her "bluegrass record", as compared to some other more experimental or jazz-related records. And for me it hits just the right mix. I feel like baby bear on this one -- it's not too jazzy, not to traditional. It's JUST RIGHT.
While "Leaving Cottondale" won an award for best bluegrass instrumental, my favorite cut is one called Poe's Picking Party. I never get tired of it. Twin mandos in a kind of baroque ensemble.
The musicanship is great all around. The mandolin work is outstanding. I never knew Sam Bush could play like that. And of course the banjo playing is great. Alsion uses a lot of the melodic style that I associate with Bill Keith, but she can also do straight ahead Scruggs with the best of them. The material provides lots of variety, with guest vocals by Claire Lynch and Tim O'Brien, to name a couple. Blistering and soothing, it's all here.
All in all, this is a record I go back to again and again. And now I even listen to and enjoy Alison's other records, like Simple Pleasures and Look Left. Highly recommended.
Description of Fair Weather
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Considering the bluegrass renaissance we've gladly witnessed at the end of the 1990s, it's not surprising that banjo wizard Alison Brown would move away from her more progressive jazz-based endeavors and return to more traditional-sounding bluegrass. High-profile, all-star affairs such as Béla Fleck's Bluegrass Sessions, Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band's The Mountain, and Dolly Parton's The Grass Is Blue helped the genre rise to new heights in popularity in 1999. Who knows what spurred Brown to make Fair Weather, but the end result is a stunning, appealing, broad-ranging, star-studded record. In the company of acoustic-music royalty--Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, David Grier, Matt Flinner, Darol Anger, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Tim O'Brien, and Todd Phillips--Brown plows through hard-charging breakdowns, minor-keyed newgrass, solo-banjo lullabies, and everything in between. Vince Gill sings the bright title track and Claire Lynch handles vocals on the delightful "Hummingbird." The two famous cover songs--Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write the Book" (sung by Bush) and Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'" (sung by O'Brien)--are pleasant enough diversions, though they pale in comparison to the likes of "Shake and Howdy," an intricate, classically tinged trio with Anger and Marshall. And, lest we forget, the compositional skills and mesmerizing banjo work of Ms. Brown, a woman who is acutely aware of the vast melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities of her instrument and always takes full advantage of them. --Marc Greilsamer
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