| Twilight Motel | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Progressive bluegrass, jazz | |||
| Length | 42:49 | |||
| Label | Vanguard [1] | |||
| Producer | Mike Marshall | |||
| Alison Brown chronology | ||||
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Twilight Motel is an album by the American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 1992. [2] [3] Brown used a 1938 Gibson banjo. [4]
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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Chicago Tribune |  [1] |
| The Indianapolis Star | [7] |
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]
All compositions by Alison Brown unless otherwise noted
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