In 2013, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on a bluegrass album called Love Has Come For You. One of the songs, “Sarah Jane and the Iron Mountain Baby” was based on a true event. In 1902, William Helms found a valise below the Iron Mountain and Southern Railway in St. Louis. Inside the valise was a baby, injured, but alive. Helms and his wife adopted the child, and the story inspired “The Ballad of the Iron Mountain Baby,” written by the Reverend J.T. Barton.
After the success of their album, Martin and Brickell wrote Bright Star, workshopped at Vassar College. In late 2014, the
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