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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 - This week, GRAMMY Award-winning musicians Steve Martin and Alison Brown performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and appeared on The View to celebrate the recent release of their debut collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane (Compass Records), which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Chart. This marks Martin’s seventh consecutive No. 1 album in the genre since 2009.
You can watch their electric performance of “Let's Get Out of Here” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon HERE and their interview about the album on The View HERE.
Featuring guest appearances from luminaries like Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, the Indigo Girls, Tim O’Brien, Jason Mraz, Della Mae, and more Safe, Sensible and Sane is a mesmerizing new turn in the evolution of banjo music. Martin and Brown also recently discussed the album and its inspirations with Billboard, on NPR's Here & Now, WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart, CBC’s Q with Tom Power, and more. Listen to the album HERE.
Tracked live at Compass Sound Studio (the historic studio at Compass Records’ Nashville headquarters, owned and operated by Brown and her husband, bassist and co-producer Garry West), Safe, Sensible and Sane includes the standout track, “5 Days Out, 2 Days Back” feat. Tim O’Brien—a warm and timeless track that received three nominations at this year'sInternational Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards, which Martin and Brown also co-hosted. They performed the track on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this summer–watch the performance HERE.
Additional highpoints include “New Cluck Old Hen,” which reimagines a century-old Appalachian banjo tune and features the all-female bluegrass powerhouse Della Mae, “Michael” (feat. Aoife O’Donovan with Sarah Jarosz), a bittersweet reverie adorned with the breezy rhythms of bossa nova, “Girl, Have Money When You’re Old” (feat. Indigo Girls), a harmony-fueled track with Amy Ray and Emily Sailers trading off lead vocals, and “Dear Time,” (feat. Jackson Browne with Jeff Hanna)). The “Dear Time” music video was filmed at LA’s iconic Troubadour, the storied venue where both Steve and Jackson launched their careers in the ’60s during a very historic period in that fertile scene, and where Brown later performed as a rising SoCal teen bluegrasser. Watch the music video HERE.
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