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Mon 10 Oct 2009A banjo trip to Nashville from a banjaxed Wall Street
A former investment banker with a Harvard MBA, Alison Brown is not your average jazz and bluegrass player, writes SIOBHÁN LONG
SO YOU’VE ALREADY pushed the bluegrass envelope, exploiting the rhythmic potential of jazz and luring a hunk of listeners to your chosen instrument, the much-maligned banjo. Grammy nominations abound, road and air miles are tucked beneath your belt as a member of the Alison Krauss band, and then with the Alison Brown Quartet. In between hours on the tour bus and weeks in the studio, you decide to launch your own record label, Compass Records, in partnership with your husband and bassist, Gary West.
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