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The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo is a 2009 album by Steve Martin, featuring Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Tim O'Brien, Tony Trischka and Mary Black.It contains 15 songs and is the first album focusing on Martin as a musician. [2]
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a bluegrass instrumental, in the common "breakdown" format, written by Earl Scruggs and first recorded on December 11, 1949, by the bluegrass artists Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. [1] It is a standard in the bluegrass repertoire. The 1949 recording features Scruggs playing a five-string banjo.
The Steve Martin Brothers: Nominated [20] 1999: Pure Drivel: Nominated [20] 2002: Best Country Instrumental Performance "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Won [b] [20] 2010: Best Bluegrass Album: The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo: Won [20] 2012: Rare Bird Alert: Nominated [c] [20] 2014: Best American Roots Song "Love Has Come for You" Won [d ...
In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of 2002 . In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina . [ 70 ]
A job reviewing storm and flood maps for the local county government office is hardly the kind of thing that makes you a hard-partying "wild and crazy guy." But for 57-year-old Mark Johnson, his ...
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" 9 Non-album singles 1952 "'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered" 9 1959 "Cabin on the Hill" 9 1960 "Crying My Heart Out Over You" 21 1961 "Polka on a Banjo" 12 "Go Home" 10 1962 "Just Ain't" 16 "The Legend of the Johnson Boys" 27 Folk Songs of Our Land "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" 1 44 Hard Travelin' (The Ballad of Jed Clampett)
Kelly Clarkson's newest song features a one-of-a-kind guest artist: Steve Martin! The GRAMMY-winning pop star teamed up with Martin, known to be a talented banjo player, for her most recent single ...
Rare Bird Alert is a 2011 bluegrass album by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, featuring guest appearances by Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks. This is Martin's second consecutive musical album, and comprises 13 songs. His first all-music album was 2009's The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo.