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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

STEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS’ NEW CD, RARE BIRD ALERT, WILL BE RELEASED ON ROUNDER RECORDS ON MARCH 15, 2011

Rare Bird Alert Features Guest Appearances by Paul McCartney &The Dixie Chicks

Los Angeles, California, January 6, 2011—Multi-talented Grammy® and Emmy winning actor/comedian/musician and best-selling author Steve Martin will release his second full length bluegrass album Rare Bird Alert on Rounder Records on March 15, 2011. Steve will be joined by the Steep Canyon Rangers, who toured extensively with Martin over the last year.  Following the success of the GRAMMY Award winning The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, Rare Bird Alert features 13 new Martin-penned tracks, including a live version of “King Tut,” and was produced by Tony Trishka. Sir Paul McCartney and The Dixie Chick make special guest vocal appearances on the album.  Martin co-wrote two of the CD’s songs with the Steep Canyon Rangers.

“’Rare Bird Alert’ represents an intense, but joyful period of songwriting and touring.  My love of this music continues,” comments Martin.

Steve Martin is a four-time Grammy® winner, the latest for The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, which won Best Bluegrass Album (2009), in addition he won for his collaboration with Earl Scruggs on Foggy Mountain Breakdown (2001) and two for comedy albums Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) and Let’s Get Small (1977.) After playing on the Grammy® Award winning Foggy Mountain Breakdown with Earl Scruggs, Martin began writing a string of new banjo songs, some with lyrics and some as instrumentals which led to the making of, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo which was released on Rounder Records in 2009.

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