| Twilight Motel | |
| Type: | studio album |
| Artist: | Alison Brown |
| Cover: | 1992_motel.jpg |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Genre: | Progressive bluegrass, jazz |
| Length: | 42:49 |
| Label: | Vanguard |
| Producer: | Mike Marshall |
| Prev Title: | Simple Pleasures |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Look Left |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Twilight Motel is an album by the American banjoist Alison Brown, released in 1992.[1] Brown used a 1938 Gibson banjo.[2]
Recorded in Nashville and in Berkeley, the album was produced by Mike Marshall.[3] "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" is a cover of the Ewan MacColl song.[4]
The Baltimore Sun wrote that the album "touches on everything from slippery samba rhythms to flashy Scruggs-style picking."[5] 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'." 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."[6]
In his AllMusic review, music critic Michael McCall called the album "jazzier, yet also more relaxed, than her debut."
All compositions by Alison Brown unless otherwise noted