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The musical Bright Star was inspired by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Grammy Award-winning 2013 LP Love Has Come for You, which saw the multi-talented comedy legend and ex-New Bohemian crafting a solid, easygoing set of bluegrass-kissed, country-folk-pop gems. Written by Martin and Brickell, and directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie, Bright Star's simple story of love and redemption is a familiar one, and that familiarity provides fertile ground for Martin and Brickell's bucolic and agreeable melodies. Fans of Love Has Come for You, as well as the duo's 2015 sequel So Familiar, will feel right at home, as some of the material is taken directly from the source. Strong performances from Carmen Cusack, Paul Alexander Nolan, and Hannah Elless, the latter of whom delivers a show-stopping rendition of Love Has Come for You highlight "Asheville," help to elevate some of the narrative's more predictable beats. Musically, Brickell and Martin explore every facet of the country-folk genre, delivering boot-stomping hoedowns ("Whoa Mama," "Bright Star"), wistful folk-pop ("What Could Be Better"), bluesy torch songs ("So Familiar"), and even a little big-band-kissed country swing ("Another Round"). At times, it all feels a little like a Prairie Home Companion episode that's been shoe-horned into a Christopher Guest film, but it's hard not to root for Bright Star, even in its most treacly, homespun moments. Each note and lyric is delivered with such unabashed benevolence and countryside gusto, that by the time show reaches its gospel-tinged finale, the listener feels compelled to link arms with the cast and bow.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Company, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Stephen Bogardus, Vocals, MainArtist - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Bright Star Original Broadway Company, Vocals - A.J. Shively, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - A.J. Shively, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Stephen Lee Anderson, Vocals, MainArtist - Dee Hoty, Vocals, MainArtist - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Michael Mulheren, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Company, Vocals - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist - Hannah Elless, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Bridges on Broadway, LLC, under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Stephen Lee Anderson, Vocals, MainArtist - Dee Hoty, Vocals, MainArtist - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - William Youmans, Vocals, MainArtist - Michael Mulheren, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records..
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Michael Mulheren, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Bright Star Original Broadway Band, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Stephen Bogardus, Vocals, MainArtist - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Dee Hoty, Vocals, MainArtist - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals - Hannah Elless, Vocals, MainArtist - Sandra DeNise, Vocals, MainArtist - Sarah Jane Shanks, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Jeff Blumenkrantz, Vocals, MainArtist - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Emily Padgett, Vocals, MainArtist - A.J. Shively, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Paul Alexander Nolan, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - A.J. Shively, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist - Hannah Elless, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Bright Star Original Broadway Company, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Bright Star Original Broadway Company, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Peter Asher, Producer - Edie Brickell, Composer - STEVE MARTIN, Composer - Carmen Cusack, Vocals, MainArtist - Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
Album review
The musical Bright Star was inspired by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Grammy Award-winning 2013 LP Love Has Come for You, which saw the multi-talented comedy legend and ex-New Bohemian crafting a solid, easygoing set of bluegrass-kissed, country-folk-pop gems. Written by Martin and Brickell, and directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie, Bright Star's simple story of love and redemption is a familiar one, and that familiarity provides fertile ground for Martin and Brickell's bucolic and agreeable melodies. Fans of Love Has Come for You, as well as the duo's 2015 sequel So Familiar, will feel right at home, as some of the material is taken directly from the source. Strong performances from Carmen Cusack, Paul Alexander Nolan, and Hannah Elless, the latter of whom delivers a show-stopping rendition of Love Has Come for You highlight "Asheville," help to elevate some of the narrative's more predictable beats. Musically, Brickell and Martin explore every facet of the country-folk genre, delivering boot-stomping hoedowns ("Whoa Mama," "Bright Star"), wistful folk-pop ("What Could Be Better"), bluesy torch songs ("So Familiar"), and even a little big-band-kissed country swing ("Another Round"). At times, it all feels a little like a Prairie Home Companion episode that's been shoe-horned into a Christopher Guest film, but it's hard not to root for Bright Star, even in its most treacly, homespun moments. Each note and lyric is delivered with such unabashed benevolence and countryside gusto, that by the time show reaches its gospel-tinged finale, the listener feels compelled to link arms with the cast and bow.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:00
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Steve Martin Edie Brickell
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Ghostlight Records
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records. ℗ 2016 Sun Is Gonna Shine LLC. Under exclusive license to Ghostlight Records.
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