page_title: Steep Canyon Rangers
section_title: With Steve Martin
hierarchical_section_title: Steep Canyon Rangers / With Steve Martin
caption_attribution_description: English: Concert picture of Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers in Seattle on November 3, 2009.
context_page_description: Steep Canyon Rangers is an American bluegrass band based in Asheville and Brevard, North Carolina. Though formed in 2000, the band has become widely known since 2009 for collaborating with actor/banjoist Steve Martin. In 2013, the Steep Canyon Rangers' solo album Nobody Knows You won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. The previous year, their 2012 collaboration with Steve Martin, Rare Bird Alert, was nominated for the same award. Steep Canyon Rangers have recorded 9 solo albums plus two collaborative albums with Steve Martin. SCR performed as a quintet for nearly a decade before intermittent touring began as a sextet with Steve Martin; the band still performs in both configurations. In May 2013, Steve Martin and SCR began performing with Edie Brickell after she and Martin co-wrote and recorded Love Has Come for You.
context_section_description: In May 2009, Steep Canyon Rangers were asked by banjoist/comedian Steve Martin to perform with him (as a sextet) in a benefit concert for the Los Angeles Public Library: featuring banjo and comedy.  This first collaborative performance took place at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA and was met with much acclaim.  Martin subsequently asked the Rangers to accompany him on a "world bluegrass tour" taking the group to venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Royal Festival Hall (London) and the Wang Center in Boston.  While in England, the group also performed on the critically acclaimed music TV show, Later with Jools Holland.  On June 27, 2009, Steve Martin and SCR were featured on a broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion.  Soon after, Martin played with the band at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco. and Benaroya Hall in Seattle.  Martin appeared with the Steep Canyon Rangers at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival and then on Austin City Limits on November 6, 2010.  On July 4, 2011 Martin and SCR performed A Capitol Fourth celebration on the West Lawn of the US Capitol Building.
  In the summer of 2010, Steve Martin and SCR recorded their first collaborative album, Rare Bird Alert at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC.  The album contained tracks primarily composed by Martin and featured guest vocal appearances by Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks.  The CD was released the following March, and then on September 29, 2011, Martin and the Rangers were jointly named Entertainers of the Year at the IBMA Awards ceremony in Nashville, TN.  In May 2012, Martin and the Rangers played at the 5th annual DelFest as a headlining act.
  In September 2017 Steep Canyon Rangers released The Long-Awaited Album with Steve Martin. A few months later, Out in the Open was released on January 26, 2018, but without Steve Martin in the band.
caption: Steve Martin playing with the Steep Canyon Rangers in Seattle.
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