Twilight Motel

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Twilight Motel
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Studio album by
Alison Brown
Released1992
Genre Progressive bluegrass, jazz
Length42:49
Label Vanguard [1]
Producer Mike Marshall
Alison Brown chronology
Simple Pleasures
(1990)		Twilight Motel
(1992)		 Look Left
(1994)

Twilight Motel is an album by the American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 1992. [2] [3] Brown used a 1938 Gibson banjo. [4]

Contents

Production

Recorded in Nashville and in Berkeley, the album was produced by Mike Marshall. [5] "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" is a cover of the Ewan MacColl song. [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Baltimore Sun wrote that the album "touches on everything from slippery samba rhythms to flashy Scruggs-style picking." [8] The Indianapolis Star concluded that "there's nothing bad on this disc, much that's good, but too much that's merely pleasant, veering close to 'easy listening'." [7] Stereo Review noted that "Brown never wanders as far into space-grass territory as Bela Fleck, but her artistic vision, while less flashy, is no less profound." [9]

In his AllMusic review, music critic Michael McCall called the album "jazzier, yet also more relaxed, than her debut." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Alison Brown unless otherwise noted

  1. "First Light" – 5:17
  2. "Lorelei" – 4:36
  3. "Twilight Motel" – 3:45
  4. "Blue Marlin" – 4:40
  5. "Saint Geneviéve" – 4:02
  6. "Gods of Brazil" – 4:29
  7. "Shoot The Dog" – 3:25
  8. "Pelican Bay" – 3:12
  9. "Chicken Road" – 4:25
  10. "Sweet Thames Flow Softly (MacCall, MacColl)" – 5:24

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Duckman, David (January 28, 1993). "Rave recordings". Tempo. Chicago Tribune. p. 6.
  2. 1 2 3 McCall, Michael. "Twilight Motel > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ Henry, Murphy (2013). Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass. University of Illinois Press. p. 298.
  4. ↑ Adams, Noah (November 25, 1992). "Twilight Motel". All Things Considered. NPR.
  5. ↑ Clark, Renee Hopkins (December 13, 1992). "Twilight Motel, Alison Brown". The Dallas Morning News. p. 6C.
  6. ↑ Lawrence, Keith (December 25, 1992). "Bluegrass Notes". Messenger-Inquirer. p. 2D.
  7. 1 2 Schoch, Eric (January 22, 1993). "Alison Brown Twilight Motel". The Indianapolis Star. p. B9.
  8. ↑ Considine, J.D. (January 1, 1993). "Twilight Motel". Features. The Baltimore Sun. p. 5.
  9. ↑ "Twilight Motel by Alison Brown". Stereo Review. 58 (5): 90. May 1993.
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