Becoming rarer and rarer is the album that I can listen to all the way through. Maybe it's the way I've listened to music for the last five-plus years (where I've cherry-picked songs on ITunes), but unless I burn a CD or make my own playlist, it just doesn't happen that often anymore.
Surprised-I-was (as Yoda might say) that an album of bluegrass tunes by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers is such an album. There are a few funny tunes (including the good-riddance song "Jubilation Day" and "Atheists Don't Have No Songs"), but this album has a lot of heart as well- the instrumentals are solid, and Rare Bird Alert contains one of the most beautiful, wistful songs I've heard in a while, "You", a lost-love song featuring the Dixie Chicks.
Highly recommended, and how sweet it is to find such an unexpected pleasure.
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