Steve Martin, Edie Brickell combine for plucky, magical music at Mahaffey | Things to do in Tampa Bay | Tampa Bay Times

Steve Martin, as Steve Martin is wont to do, gets his first joke in early. The one-time Wild and Crazy Guy is a full-time banjo player these days — clawhammer style, for the diehard pickers out there — and his current album, Love Has Come for You, is an old-timey Americana gem made with wispy chanteuse Edie Brickell. He writes the plucky music; she pens the lyrics. Sort of like Elton John and Bernie Taupin, I say during a phone chat with both Martin and Brickell.