Ed Helms to Record a Banjo Album; Arrow Through the Head Headband Not Yet Confirmed
Ed Helms is part of a long line of banjo playing comedians. Of course, there was Steve Martin. And before him was Banjo Willy Chuckles, the Appalachian banjo playing clown/cattle doctor. Helms told The Hollywood Reporter at The L.A. Bluegrass Situation, the two-year old music festival he co-founded, that he is working on an official album with his band, the Lonesome Trio. The group met in college and has been together for 20 years – that's a lot of hootenannies (Did I say that right, hoo-tin-nan-nees?). They might sell the album direct to the people they might not, but either way, expect the sweet sounds of washboard thimblin' soon. [...]
