During the next two years, Brown continued to kindle her passion for the banjo,even though playing publicly was incompatible with her new banker. Brown eventually realized that she had a calling. "l knew people who would wake up in the morning and get in the shower and think about how they were going to refund a particular bond issue," Brown once said. " I would wake up in the morning and think about music." During a six-month hiatus from her office job, Brown was invited to play for the award-winning band Alison Krauss and Union Station. That job lasted three years and launched Brown into a new career