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Banjo Player Walks Into A Nail Salon! - Wall Street Journal Reports On Bluegrass

This isn't the first time, but it's always still just a bit of a thrill when a The Wall Street Journal reports on Bluegrass.

In an article this morning entitled Banjo Player Walks Into A Nail Salon WSJ reports on Steve Martin's 2nd new bluegrass CD A Rare Bird.

In the interview Martin was asked about his song Best Love , the tune on which Paul McCartney sings the lead vocal. The song is about the ins and outs of marriage including a line about a cross-word puzzle. "We can't keep singing about trains and mines. The world has expanded so much, though I guess you could sing about black lung disease if you wanted to. [Musician] Tim O'Brien has written songs about computers," Martin said.

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