Vanguard Visionaries is a compilation album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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 2007.

History

Vanguard Records had a high profile during the 1960s folk revival and released music by many folk artists such as Doc Watson

Doc Watson

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...

, Odetta

Odetta

Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...

, John Fahey

John Fahey (musician)

John Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the...

 and many others. To celebrate their 60th anniversary, Vanguard released a series of artist samplers called Vanguard Visionaries

Vanguard Visionaries

Vanguard Visionaries is a compilation album by American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 2007.-History:Vanguard Records had a high profile during the 1960s folk revival and released music by many folk artists such as Doc Watson, Odetta, John Fahey and many others...

.

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...

 unless otherwise noted

1. "Leaving Cottondale" – 2:32
2. "Simple Pleasures" – 2:51
3. "Wolf Moon" – 2:52
4. "Shoot the Dog" – 3:24
5. "Chicken Road" – 4:28
6. "View from Above" – 4:54
7. "Look Left" – 5:00
8. "Cara's Way" – 5:18
9. "G Bop (Brown, Burr, Reed, West)" – 3:08
10. "Without Anastasia" – 3:13

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
• Garry West – bass
• John R. Burr – piano
• Rick Reed – drums, percussion