While originally a blue grass artist Alison Brown has clearly moved to a more hybridized sound that draws influence from bluegrass, jazz and celtic music. In collaboration with B'la Fleck, she won the 2000 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance. She participated in Alison Krauss's Grammy-winning album I've Got That Old Feeling, and received a Grammy nomination for her own recording, Simple Pleasures (1990). In 2001 she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for her song "Leaving Cottondale" from the album Fair Weather. Her last album, The Company You Keep follows this trend of mixing different acoustic genres resulting in fresh-sounding new hybrids.