The banjo was a vaudevillian prop for him during his bunny-eared standup years, but he's evolved into a serious picker and has a Grammy to show for it.

Welcome bluegrass-chart-topper and Grammy-winner Steve Martin—yes, that Steve Martin—to Tucson : If any modern artist in the pop-culture pantheon deserves to be bestowed with the title ...

Here are some songs and jokes that the comic/bluegrass musician performed.

Steve Martin tossed banjo into his act at the very beginning: a “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” with an arrow through his head during his ’70s stand-up tours and “Dueling Banjos” with a jug ...

With his first bluegrass album, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, comedic genius Steve Martin reveals another side of his talent.

Martin, who has played banjo since he was 16, can put his music up against the finest in the genre.

You may know him as a comedian, actor and author, but Steve Martin is also a wild and crazy banjo player. Steve Martin puts his new album, "The Crow: New Songs For the Five-String Banjo," "under ...

Steve Martin always did play the banjo; he used the instrument throughout much of his standup comedy routine. While he gave up doing comedy clubs long ago (sighting he just ...

The banjo is typically reserved for folksy country songs, but the instrument can be pretty versatile (even if it still totally sounds like it should be on a folk song). These 11 bands channeled ...