Alison Brown

Alison Brown: The Company You Keep

by C. Michael Bailey
April 11, 2009

The discovery of a previously unknown species is a watershed event in the biological sciences. The discovery (or recognition) of the same in music is an equal watershed. Banjoist Alison Brown's The Company You Keep marks such a musical event. Music that stubbornly defies categorization is rare indeed and Brown's tenth release (the sixth on her and husband-bassist Garry West's Compass label) is such an event. Brown is a veritable Renaissance woman—with a Harvard degree, an MBA from UCLA, a ...