Steve Martin & Alison Brown On Working With Selena Gomez & The Rise Of Women in Bluegrass | CMA Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Steve Martin & Alison Brown caught up with Alexandra Kay & Rania Aniftos at the CMA Awards 2025.

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00:00Oh my gosh, we have Alison Brown and Steve Martin. Get on in here, you guys.

00:03Hi, you guys.

00:05I'm Steve, it's Alison Brown.

00:06Hi, Alison. Nice to meet you. I love your dress as well. How are y'all feeling tonight?

00:11It's great to be here. This is exciting. It's my first CMA Awards.

00:14Same to me. I love it.

00:16And CMA Awards, we're all here together. Is it your first? No, right?

00:20It might be my first because I thought it was a country music, but it was American music, something different.

00:26And I mean, something that I've always found so inspiring and cool is people that blend music with acting and different types of creativity.

00:38What is the key to finding that balance between the different types of arts and the different types of creativity?

00:46Well, for me, I don't really mix them. If I'm playing music, I play music. And if I'm acting, I act. But I don't act and play music.

00:53Right, right, right. But I mean, I'm guessing creativity kind of plays in in every kind of aspect.

00:57It's all a creative act. Writing songs, playing songs, acting, hanging out with amusing people is part of our lives.

01:05And speaking of mixing, acting and music, I love Only Murders in the Building.

01:12Absolutely love that show. What is it like working with Selena Gomez?

01:17A delight. It couldn't be better and we couldn't have gotten luckier than to have her.

01:21And by the way, Allison and her husband, Gary, own Compass Records here in Nashville.

01:27And it's a very important label for bluegrass and Irish music and all kinds of things.

01:32Tell us about it, Allison.

01:34We don't exactly mix acting with music, but yeah, we wanted to start a label that would be kind of a,

01:40hopefully growing to be a pillar of the Roots music community.

01:42So we have the old Glazer Brothers Studio, which is where the outlaw country music scene was born,

01:48you know, 30, 40 years ago. And we're just kind of contemporary outlaws in the Roots tradition.

01:54Incredible. Did you grow up listening to bluegrass?

01:57Yes, I did. Earl Scruggs is my first musical love.

01:59Oh, incredible. I absolutely love the genre.

02:02And I wanted to ask you, as someone who has their finger on the pulse when it comes to bluegrass and country music as a whole,

02:08is there any artist that's really exciting for you right now? And you too, Steve?

02:12Well, I tell you, the thing that's most exciting to me is to see women really ripping it up in the bluegrass space,

02:17because it's been a long time coming.

02:19And with artists like Sierra Hall and Molly Tuttle, I just feel like women are being so well represented.

02:24And Allison has actually toured with Marty Short and me in our show with an all-female bluegrass band

02:30that every instrumentalist won their instrumentalist of the year in their category.

02:35Yeah, I mean, it's so cool to see so many people, like, uplifting female artists.

02:40They're dominating tonight, too. I mean, it's so exciting to see.

02:43And the last thing I have to ask you, lots of artists. Who is your artist of the year?

02:48Artist of the year in the country space?

02:50Eh, and beyond.

02:51Oh, that's a tough one.

02:52I'd have to say Vince Gill, just because he's an important figure tonight.

02:56We've worked with him. He sings a song on our record, and we like him.

03:00Yeah.

03:00He's a great guy.

03:01Great answer. Great answer. Well, thank you guys so much.

03:03Thanks for stopping with us, guys.

03:05Congratulations on everything.

03:06Wow.

Steve Martin & Alison Brown On Working With Selena Gomez & The Rise Of Women in Bluegrass | CMA Awards 2025

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