{"id":4667,"date":"2025-08-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/steve-martin-alison-debut-album\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:00:00","slug":"steve-martin-alison-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/steve-martin-alison-debut-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Banjo Bonanza: Steve Martin, Alison Brown Plot Debut Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/4854-Safe-Sensible-and-Sane-album-cover-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1174\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Banjo virtuosos Steve Martin and Alison Brown have come together for their first collaborative album, <em>Safe, Sensible and Sane<\/em>, which will be released Oct. 17 on Compass Records. First single \u201cDear Time\u201d featuring Jackson Browne and Jeff Hanna is out now in tandem with an accompanying music video filmed at Los Angeles\u2019 Troubadour club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the banjo, there are so many styles you can work with, but Alison and I both have an ear for its more melodic, melancholy aspect,\u201d\u00a0says Martin, who previously teamed with Brown for recordings of songs such as \u201cFoggy Morning Breaking\u201d and \u201cBluegrass Radio.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe got together and played music for days, and ended up making a record where our entire banjo histories coalesce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-geoff-wilkinson-of-us3\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Geoff Wilkinson of Us3<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/deep-cut-friday-cast-no-shadow-by-oasis\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Cast No Shadow\u2019 by Oasis<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/florence-the-machine-ready-new-lp\/\">Everybody \u201cScream\u201d: Florence + The Machine Ready New LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t start off by saying, let\u2019s make an album,\u201d adds Brown. \u201cWe were just having a good time writing songs, and at some point we realized we\u2019d written enough to gather them all together and put a bow on it. There was a joy and ease and sense of fun to the whole process, and now hopefully everyone who listens will share that joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Safe, Sensible and Sane<\/em> is laden with additional guest appearances by Vince Gill, the Indigo Girls, Tim O\u2019Brien, Jason Mraz, Aoife O\u2019Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Della Mae. Among the musicians lending a hand at the Brown-operated Compass Sound Studio in Nashville are mandolin player Sam Bush, fiddle player\u00a0Stuart Duncan, Molly Tuttle\u00a0and\u00a0Sierra Hull.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"v_yJFbvOkXs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Martin and Brown will co-host the International Bluegrass Music Awards next month in Chattanooga, Tn. Album track \u201c5 Days Out, 2 Days Back\u201d is up for Song of the Year, Collaborative Performance of the Year and Music Video of the Year, while Brown is nominated for Banjo Player of the Year.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banjo virtuosos Steve Martin and Alison Brown have come together for their first collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, which will be released Oct. 17 on Compass Records. 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