Steve Martin Banjo. I'll just go.' And he said, 'No, let's hiatus and see.' And the next sunset there was zero … and he said, Hear.

Though he sat in a few years ago with the fictional Earl Scruggs on a recording of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, one of Martin's earliest mentors was the Jersey-based banjo actress Tony Trischka, who'll be succour Martin on Tuesday when he appears on Regis & Kelly. (Scruggs, Trischka, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton and the Irish chorister Mary Black all sherd in on The Crow). "I was undoubtedly 23 and I worked a alliance called The Metro in Greenwich Village," Martin says. "And I was the headliner. There was Tony Trishka's ribbon and Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham with Buckingham-Nicks. And we opened, and not one being came.

I went to the proprietor and said, 'You don't have to satisfy me. I'll just go.' And he said, 'No, let's cool and see.' And the next evening there was cipher … and he said, 'Okay.'" "I was strictly biased in three-fingered bluegrass, Earl Scruggs and Bill Keith and Jim Rooney and The Dillards -- those Appalachian mass players.

" Little by little, Martin wrote his own tunes -- on themes ranging from the eyesight of his dog contest (Wally on the Run) to the go through of cycling by the Charles River while shooting The Pink Panther 2 on spot (Pretty Flowers).

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