The recent appearnce by The Alison Brown Quartet on Mountain Stage has just been posted on the show’s NPR web page. They perform five songs from their latest Compass Records release, The Company You Keep.

Brown has never limited herself to a single type of music. As banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station in the late 1980s, she showed that she had a distinctive voice on her instrument, and much of her music since has focused on melodic, jazz and jazz-inflected original compositions.

The band includes her husband Garry West on bass, John Burr on piano, and Larry Atamanuik on drums.

Their complete 27 minute set can be streamed online.

Audio from the most recent edition of Mountain Stage, featuring music from Jerry Douglas and Jayme Stone can be found at NPR.org.

Douglas performs a set of music from his latest CD, Glide, along with his band: Luke Bulla on fiddle, Todd Parks on bass, Chad Melton on drums, and Guthrie Trapp on guitar.

His entire 30 minute set can be heard online.

Banjoist Jayme Stone visited Mountain Stage with Malian kora player Mansa Sissoko, with whom he recorded his most recent album, Africa To Appalachia. That CD won a Juno Award for Best World Music Album of 2009.

Audio for his 25 minute set is also available online.

The Mountain Stage web page at the NPR Music site has links to a number of recently re-aired programs that should be of interest to readers of The Bluegrass Blog.

These are encore presentations of earlier shows, but the music is still plenty fresh and powerful all around. The Crooked Still and Rhonda Vincent bits are especially fine.

You can access the audio for these segments online:

• Alecia Nugent
• Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
• Shawn Camp
• Uncle Earl
• The Belleville Outfit
• Sometymes Why
• Crooked Still

Audio from Dan Tyminski’s recent appearance on Mountain Stage can now be accessed online.

The show was recorded on October 12 of this year and broadcast during the week of November 14. Patty Loveless, Chris Knight and Solas were also featured on this show.

Dan and his talented band get a substantial portion of the program, time enough for five songs from his two solo projects (How Many Times, Old Love Affair, Wheels, Heads You Win, Tails I Lose, Knock, Knock!) and his iconic version of I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow.

Joining Dan are Ron Stewart on banjo, Adam Steffey on mandolin, Barry bales on bass and Justin Moses on fiddle.

Find the audio online on the Mountain Stage archives page.