Podcast 417: Alison Brown

Banjo great Alison Brown joins us on this week’s podcast to talk
about her new album, On Banjo, and so much more. We chat about
how she discovered bluegrass music while growing up in Southern
California, her lifelong friendship with Stuart Duncan, the
challenges of running a record label in 2023 (Alison and her
husband run Compass Records), teaching, increasing the number of
female banjo players, and a lot more. It’s a great chat.


https://alisonbrown.bandcamp.com/album/on-banjo


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