Brown, Alison: Fair Weather (Vinyl LP)

Like James Taylor's voice or B.B. King's guitar, Alison Brown's banjo is an instrument possessed of a unique sonic signature and an inescapable beauty. -Billboard Magazine Alison Brown's 2000 classic album celebrates it's 20 year anniversary with a limited release vinyl. Joined by special guests including Tim O'Brien, Claire Lynch, Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, David Grier, and featuring the Grammy Award-winning track Leaving Cottondale, with Béla Fleck, FAIR WEATHER heralded Alison Brown's return to her bluegrass roots with stunning results. Over the course of the album's 12 tracks, 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. Covers of Elvis Costello's Everyday I Write the Book (sung by Bush) and Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin' (sung by O'Brien) lend themselves well to a bluegrass treatment and are compl