Steve Martin is The Crow
Before you get excited thinking that Martin's going to revive his coked-up, arrow-through-the-head, '70s-style stand-up antics, just go ahead and watch the video after the jump of him going off on banjo with Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka. That's right: Martin will be playing songs from his brand-new "first music album" The Crow - New Songs for the Five-String Banjo. From the press release:
Life-long friend John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), who produced the album and assembled an all-star cast to record with Martin, will appear on the show along with Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Stuart Duncan, Tim O'Brien, and more. The artists will be performing select songs from the The Crow album, and Martin will sing his song "Late for School"— the second time he will have sung in public since the 1978 pop culture phenomenon King Tut, the first being on an appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this year, when he hosted for the fifteenth time.
The Crow is currently available
exclusively via Amazon, and it will be for sale at "all music retailers" later in the year. Martin clearly has skills, and after watching the Letterman clip you'll find after the jump, I was significantly more impressed than I was weirded out. So good for him. But after getting the whole serious musician thing out of his system, maybe...just maybe...he'll get to work making another Jerk or LA Story. A dude can dream. Check out
the Opry's sitefor ticket info.
