Garden & Gun magazine's newest edition, February/March 2011, is titled Bluegrass Nation: 25 Bands Giving Old-Time Music a Whole New Sound. The issue features Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers as the lead story. Other artists included in the issue are: Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Ralph Stanley, The Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Darrell Scott, [...]
Last week we reported about the impending release of a new bluegrass CD by Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers. Martin has since made the title track available as a free download. The track is titled Rare Bird Alert. It's an instrumental that begins with a banjo/mando twin section, followed by a full band [...]
Steve Martin seems to have been enjoying his musical collaboration with the Steep Canyon Rangers. Things have gone well thus far: the fans love the show, his first banjo CD The Crow was well received by the bluegrass community, and won a Grammy! Following on that success, Steve is all set to release his second [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers are expecting to close out 2010 by announcing an agreement with Rounder Records. As we understand it, the final contracts have not yet been signed, but should be executed by year's end. The guys have recently completed a collaborative project with Steve Martin, and will be on tour with Martin in the [...]
Video from Saturday's Austin City Limits, featuring Steve Martin with Steep Canyon Rangers and Sarah Jarosz, is now available on the show's web site. Or, you can settle in and watch it here. Great show!
This weekend's edition of Austin City Limits is packed with stellar bluegrass and acoustic music. Steve Martin is the headliner - along with his trusty band, Steep Canyon Rangers - and young acoustic songstress Sarah Jarosz is performing as well. Both have records to promote, so you can expect to hear some new music mixed [...]
Thanks to our pal Casey Henry for this photo of Bluegrass Mom, Rebecca Frazier (nee Hoggan) and her young son, Jack. Now 18 moths old, Jack was only 10 weeks when this shot was taken in June, 2009. Though pictured here with a mandolin, Rebecca is known primarily as a guitarist, a role she filled [...]
We heard this morning from Graham Sharp, banjo picker and vocalist with Steep Canyon Rangers. He wanted to let us know how things turned out with the 2010 Mountain Song Festival, which the band hosts each year in North Carolina. The one-day event serves as a fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania [...]
Video from yesterday's appearance by Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers on Good Morning America is now available on the ABC web site. They performed two songs from Steve's 2009 CD, The Crow. Woody Platt, guitarist and vocalist with Steep Canyon tells us that they had a blast on the GMA set in New York. [...]
Steve Martin will be a guest on the Wednesday (9/8) edition of Good Morning America, performing on the banjo along with Steep Canyon Rangers. He will be on to promote his new children's book, Late For School, which is released on Wednesday, but he is scheduled to pick one while on the set. Good Morning [...]
