Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 13, 2008
Baseball Music

Yesterday I received an email from Yep Roc Records on The Baseball Project. Their first offering is Vol. 1 Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails.

Scott McCaughey (the Minus 5 and R.E.M.'s touring band) and Steve Wynn (the Dream Syndicate) sent us a copy of then demos of songs all about baseball earlier this year. So we decided to put it out on July 8, in the heart of the season.

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Rather than taking on the classics like "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" or what have you, the album is full of new indie rock tunes whose subjects just happen to be about baseball. Linda Pitmon and Peter Buck (of R.E.M.) round out the squad.

You can download the first track, "Past Time." At the web store, you can here samples of all the songs. Note that not all lyrics are work safe.

They sent me a preview stream of the album, and I'm really enjoying the music. "Gratitude (for Curt Flood)" and "Broken Man" were too of my favorites. Gratitude reminds current players the debt they owe Curt Flood, while Broken Man examines how Mark McGwire was made a hero then torn down. There are songs about Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Harvey Haddix and closers. Give it a listen.


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Comments

Great to hear someone's written a song about Curt Flood. It should be distributed in all MLB clubhouses; I'm betting that 75% of today's players don't know the Flood story and how he, along with Marvin Miller, was instrumental in the enormous salaries of today.

Posted by: Russ Smith at June 13, 2008 11:26 AM

Agree with the sentiments, russ, but those songs are unfortunately just flat-out dreadful. The only one I think i could listen to all the way through is the one about Willie mays, but even that kind of feels force3d.

They're trying too hard, I'm afraid.

(plus i think if you called McGwire a "broken man" to his face, he'd break you!)

Posted by: SleepyCA at June 14, 2008 12:58 AM

Check out the Hungry for Music website. Jeff Campbell has already done 9 great CD's of baseball music, and the 10th and 11th are coming out this summer. And the proceeds go to music programs at schools that would otherwise not be able to afford them. What's not to like?

Posted by: Jim Casey at June 14, 2008 08:50 AM

Willy, Mickey and the Duke......and Fogerty's Centerfield top my list.

Posted by: Frank at June 14, 2008 04:40 PM
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