Alison Brown - Stolen Moments

In Alison Brown's estimation, Stolen Moments is her most musically successful record to date. Brwon said herself 'For the first time, I feel like I've created a true hybrid sound that suggests its influences bluegrass, jazz, celtic music but when taken as a whole isn't any one of these things.'

Brown features an all-female cast of vocalists on four of the album's tracks. The Indigo Girls, with whom Brown has performed live, guest on one of her recordings for the first time. 'I have such great respect for them both as musicians and as people,' Brown says of the duo, 'and I thought it would be fun to come up with a neo-bluegrass arrangement of Homeward Bound a classic duet - to record with them.'

Beth Nielsen Chapman, whom Brown describes as one of her all time favorite singers, delivers a delicate version of the Jimi Hendrix classic Angel, with Brown's banjo taking on an almost harp-like quality. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Andrea Zonn are both Brown's co-conspirators on the Boo Hewerine song Prayer Wheel.

Listen to samples:

• The Sound of Summer Running
• The Magnificent Seven
• Homeward Bound
• The Pirate Queen
• Carrowkeel
• Angel
• McIntyre Heads South
• One Morning in May
• (I'm Naked and I'm) Going to Glasgow
• Prayer Wheel
• Musette for a Palindrome