The duo recently released a collaborative bluegrass album, Safe, Sensible and Sane
Steve Martin and Alison Brown appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase their instrumental bluegrass track “Let’s Get Out of Here.” Martin and Brown performed the rousing song on banjo with the help of several other live musicians, including two strings players.
“Let’s Get Out of Here” is the closing track on Martin and Brown’s recent LP, Safe, Sensible and Sane, which dropped earlier this month. The album marks the musicians’ first collaborative release, and includes appearances from Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, the Indigo Girls, Tim O’Brien, Jason Mraz, and Della Mae. It was tracked live at Compass Sound Studio in Nashville.
“With 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,” Martin explained in a statement about the album. “We got together and played music for days, and ended up making a record where our entire banjo histories coalesce.”
“We didn’t start off by saying, ‘Let’s make an album,’” Brown added. “We were just having a good time writing songs, and at some point we realized we’d 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.”
Martin recorded the album in the midst of filming his hit TV series, Only Murders in the Building. The fifth season of the show premiered on Sept. 9. Hulu recently announced that the series will head overseas to London to film its sixth season. Martin’s co-star Selena Gomez celebrated the news with a post on Instagram featuring a photo of her with Martin and Martin Short. “We are eternally grateful we can bring any of you any sort of joy,” she wrote. “My deepest gratitude from Steve, Marty and myself.”
