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Jun 30, 2011Whether your primary interest is in the comedy or the music, this is a solidly enjoyable album.
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Jun 30, 2011Martin is just too instinctively amiable to muster the passionate furies that animate the best of his genre, and too quick to deflate whatever momentum he does gather with a joke.
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Jun 30, 2011Country music as pure as the kind heard on Rare Bird Alert is rare indeed, and worthy of consideration--even if it does come from a pretty odd duck.
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Jun 30, 2011Rare Bird Alert is every bit as good as its predecessor, and it's a delight to hear Martin and his band on form.
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Aug 18, 2011A pleasant, enjoyable album from a multi-talented man.
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UncutJul 15, 2011Rare Bird Alert, recorded with the Steep Canyon Rangers, is a more rounded than 2009's mostly instrumental The Crow. [Jul 2011, p.92]