Friday, May 15, 2009

Alison Brown's New CD In Space



Alison Brown's new album, The Company You Keep, traveled into space this week with astronaut John Grunsfeld aboard space shuttle Atlantis

GRAMMY-award winning banjoist Alison Brown is a big hit with astronauts. Mission Specialist John Grunsfeld chose to take a physical copy (an interesting fun fact as most astronauts carry only iPods during missions) of her new album, The Company You Keep, on this week's final Hubble repair visit after fellow astronaut Marsha Ivins hipped him to Brown's signature hybrid banjo sound a few space missions back. Grunsfeld couldn't get Brown's tunes out of his head, so he saved up his first listen of The Company You Keep for orbit. This is the fourth time Brown's music has journeyed into space as Mission Control has previously chosen three of her tunes as wake-up calls for the astronauts on past shuttle missions.

Click here to sample tracks from The Company You Keep

Click here to see Alison's new EPK/video

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