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When Steve Martin decided to share his love of banjo music with us, I bought "The Crow". I thoroughly enjoy it! Looks like Steve was charged up by playing, for now we have another album and he's on the road. Hooking up with the Steep Canyon Rangers...or did they hook up with him? Well, I don't care who hooked up with whom. It was a good move for both, anyway."The Crow" was all about the banjo, but here it is featured in good company with guitars, fiddle, and mandolin, all superbly played. I won't go into a song-by-song review, but I want to say a little about the two novelty items on this album. One is an old novelty. (Yes. That is a contradiction in terms.) "King Tut" was novel when Steve wrote it for a Saturday Night Live skit, many moons ago, as a spectacular exhibit of items from the tomb of ancient Egypt's Pharaoh Tutankhamun was touring the country. The song escaped it's SNL bounds and wound up high on the pop charts. Well, on "Rare Bird Alert", you can hear it performed with it's original, authentic, bluegrass instrumentation. It's a hoot! But the new novelty song is the topper for me. Regardless of your religious beliefs, your sense of humor should be tickled to laughing-out-loud from "Atheists Don't Have No Songs". In fact, atheists themselves might laugh hardest over this. It seems Steve's weird mind realized, one day, that the only people without religious music are people without religion. And he decided to write a song about that. I'm still laughing!So, do you like bluegrass and banjo music? Do you like Steve Martin humor? There's mostly the former and a bit of the latter on "Rare Bird Alert". Enjoy!