Simple Pleasures (Remixed and Remastered) - Alison Brown

Unavailable on all formats since the early 2000s, Alison Brown's Grammy-nominated debut album Simple Pleasures was a leap forward for Scruggs-rooted banjo playing when it was first released in 1990. This led to her immediate recognition as a banjo pioneer and to her win in 1991 of the Banjo Player of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association (the first female to win an Instrumentalist of the Year award).

The album was produced in 1989 by acoustic music icon and frequent Jerry Garcia cohort David Grisman (architect of "Dawg Music," the jazz-influenced breakout fringe of the bluegrass genre) and recorded with a cast of all-star musicians at Dawg Studio in Marin, CA. 

In his liner notes for the reissue, Mike Marshall wrote: "It is SO fun to revisit this first album of Alison's and to remember how she put her own stamp on the acoustic music scene back in the early 90s both as a composer and monster instrumentalist. It was refreshing and very much needed to have a woman showing us guys what was what and, in the process, paving the way for the next generation of virtuoso female bluegrass pickers." 

1. Mambo Banjo
2. Leaving Cottondale
3. Fantasy
4. Daytime TV
5. Wolf Moon
6. From the Coast
7. Weetabix
8. Bright and Early
9. Waltzing with Tula
10. Reddy Rooster
11. Sundaze
12. Simple Pleasures
13. Wolf Moon (Demo)
14. Waltzing with Tula (Demo)
15. Sundaze (Demo)