Prescription Bluegrass Approved Therapy to include Paul McCartney's song w/Steve Martin
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What do "Saturday Night Live", Steve Martin and Paul McCartney all have in common? Well if nothing else, the song "Best Love" written by Steve Martin and included on his latest full-scale bluegrass CD will certainly fill the bill.
It was Saturday Night Live producer, Lorne Michaels who persuaded Martin to ask McCartney to sing on the CD. Martin says that Michaels told him, "you don't use your friends enough." That's when Martin, who'd only met Sir Paul briefly and only twice, says he conveniently started counting McCartney among his "closest friends" and began a most convoluted search for a McCartney contact number.
Of course it was not the first time Martin's comedy & McCartney's music collided with each other.
McCartney has tried his hand at most things, from singing with the Frog Chorus, writing a ballet score, to dabbling with mind-bending drugs. Now he's added one more to his list of accomplishments: Bluegrass.
McCartney was gracious enough to show up on recording day in Asheville, NC for Martin's song "Best Love" which, according to Martin started out to be only an instrumental until an article in the New York Times entitled "Ladybug Love" came to his attention and soon "Best Love" was born. The song is about Martin's wife Anne and his relationship with her as well as his belief that love is often expressed in "the little things."
Prescription Bluegrass Radio will add the song "Best Love" to their list of "Approved Therapy Selections" and will feature it next week in all their "Clinic Locations"
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