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"I've always wanted to play Hardly Strictly Bluegrass…and thanks to you, I'm one step closer to my goal"—Steve Martin, on-stage at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass '09 to crowd of, dunno, 50 million people? It gets mobbed up there! Despite his claim that the score is "Steve 1, Bluegrass 0" Martin has been playing for decades, ever since The Smothers Brothers show. And his vocals have been in shape ever since a cherished movie moment, him ukeing and singing a 1926 Billy Rose/Lee David tune "Tonight You Belong to Me" in The Jerk. He's taking advantage of residual years and residual checks to return to a first-love, music, as a platform for weisenheimery and jackassery. He's unlikely to get out of his depth with the seriously good Steep Canyon Rangers backing him. - Richard von Busack sanjose.com