Simple Pleasures is an album by American

United States

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 banjoist Alison Brown

Alison Brown

Alison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...

, released in 1990. Produced by David Grisman

David Grisman

David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...

 and recorded with his David Grisman Quintet plus such stars as Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall may refer to:*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball outfielder from 1981-1991*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1967-81...

, Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...

 and Turtle Island String Quartet violoncellist Mark Summer

Mark Summer

Mark Summer is the Turtle Island Quartet's cellist; he is a founding member and has performed with Turtle Island since its founding in 1985.-Biography:...

, this jazzy album delivers a hybrid-string sound with all tracks exclusively written by Alison Brown

Alison Brown

Alison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...

.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic Michael McCall wrote of the album "Her all-instrumental debut instantly earned respect among progressive acoustic music fans... she maintains an innate elegance amid the tricky arranging."

Track listing

All compositions by Alison Brown

Alison Brown

Alison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...

1. "Mambo Banjo" – 3:58
2. "Leaving Cottondayle" – 2:35
3. "Fantasy" – 2:25
4. "Daytime TV" – 3:02
5. "Wolf Moon" – 2:50
6. "From the Coast" – 5:13
7. "Weetabix" – 2:42
8. "Bright and Early" – 2:45
9. "Waltzing With Tula" – 3:01
10. "Reddy Rooster" – 2:43
11. "Sundaze" – 4:52
12. "Simple Pleasures" – 2:49

Personnel

• Alison Brown
  Alison Brown
  Alison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...
  
   – banjo, guitar
• Joe Craven
  Joe Craven
  Joe Craven is a Freestyle folk, world and roots music multi-instrumentalist, singer and award winning educator. Joe is the Director of RiverTunes Music Camp and a Co-Director of the Wintergrass Youth Academy...
  
   – percussion
• David Grisman
  David Grisman
  David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...
  
   – mandolin
• Matt Eakle
  Matt Eakle
  Matt Eakle has been the flutist for the David Grisman Quintet since 1989. He plays jazz, hot jazz, and blues.He has performed with Jerry Garcia, Stéphane Grappelli, Vassar Clements, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Rondstadt, Tony Rice, as well as with various symphony orchestras around the world...
  
   – flute
• Jim Kerwin – bass
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
   – violin
• Mark Marshall – guitar
• Mark Summer
  Mark Summer
  Mark Summer is the Turtle Island Quartet's cellist; he is a founding member and has performed with Turtle Island since its founding in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  – violoncello