Track Listing

1. Ramblin' Man (Main Theme from the Ramblin' Man) [Live]
2. Vegas [Live]
3. Let's Get Small
4. Smoking [Live]
5. One Way to Leave Your Lover [Live]
6. Mad at My Mother [Live]
7. Excuse Me
8. Grandmother's Song [Live]
9. Funny Comedy Gags [Live]
10. Closing [Live]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5708 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Album Description
Steve Martin, Let's Get Small

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Martin's got the audience in the palm of his hand on this mid-'70s recording of a show at The Boarding House in San Francisco. The comedian and his crowd are on the same wavelength; everyone in the room seems to share a California post-hippie sense of absurdism. Occasionally punctuated by banjo playing, Martin's almost cocky performance somehow manages to ramble with a sense of purpose. He certainly doesn't have to worry about losing the crowd; every tossed-off remark and gesture is readily gobbled up. Some of Martin's material verges on the surreal, and not surprisingly, drug references abound. One subtext of the album is the tension between conventional show biz and the hipper brand of comedy that Martin saw himself as embodying. But the comic doesn't really play favorites: both alternative and mainstream culture are targets for his funny jabs. --Fred Cisterna