Steve Martin, Edie Brickell due here July 22; Alabama returns, plus more new gigs

Steve Martin, the only person to win Grammys in both bluegrass and comedy, will team up with Edie Brickell, the voice of the 1988 classic "What I Am," July 22 at State Theatre in Minneapolis.

Banjo picker Martin and singer-songwriter Brickell are making an album together, "Love Has Come For You," due April 23 – and undertaking a 27-city tour this spring and summer.

Martin will be accompanied by the Steep Canyon Rangers, his regular backup band that this week won a Grammy for best bluegrass album, for "Nobody Knows You."

Tickets, priced from $43.50-$83.50, will go on sale March 8.

Other concerts just announced:

• Alabama is returning on a casino tour with a Aug. 31 date at Grand Casino Hinckley;

• REO Speedwagon, Styx and Ted Nugent will relive the '70 and '80s April 19 at Target Center;

• Divine Fits rocks April 4 at the Varsity,

• JD McPherson swings May 4 at First Avenue;

• Andy Grammer appears March 30 and Marina & the Diamonds May 19, both at the Skyway Theatre.