Rare Bird Alert
by Steve Martin
  • Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Mar 15, 2011
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  1. denmark
    Apr 10, 2014
    8
    This is a rare album indeed. A mixture of funny and moving songs, with "Yellow-Backed Fly" and "The Great Remember (For Nancy)" as standouts. Steve Martin proves a solid banjo player, but he does well in leaving most of the singing to others. Also, plus for including a live version of old favorite King Tut.

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72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
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  1. The Telegraph (UK)
    Aug 18, 2011
    70
    A pleasant, enjoyable album from a multi-talented man.
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  2. Uncut
    Jul 15, 2011
    60
    Rare Bird Alert, recorded with the Steep Canyon Rangers, is a more rounded than 2009's mostly instrumental The Crow. [Jul 2011, p.92]
  3. BBC Music
    Jun 30, 2011
    60
    Martin 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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