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Music for people who love baseball. Or baseball for people who love music.
Bugs & Cranks report:
Posted by Patrick Smith in The Clubhouse May 26th, 2008 Admit it. Music about baseball stinks. If you were making a baseball mix for a friend, it’d be John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” over and over about 18 or 19 times. Don’t tell me you like Terry Cashman’s adaptation of “Willie, Micky and the Duke” for your hometown team. You don’t. (When the Orioles used to play Cashman’s song “The Earl of Baltimore,” I wanted to crawl under my seat.) Finally, though, there’s a light. The excellent Yep Roc Records of Chapel Hill, N.C., aims to clear the air with July’s release of “The Baseball Project,” 13 songs about baseball written and performed by Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Miracle 3) and Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5 and REM). Apparently, Wynn and McCaughey got loaded at the party for REM’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and talked baseball all night. (Which, all by itself, should make you want to buy all their albums.)... Posted on 02 Jun 2008 by Stoffel
Quillen: R.E.M. sideman returns to first musical love
Mecury news has a nice little interview with Scott about all the things he does in R.E.M. as well as the baseball project.
If you want to observe the changes in R.E.M., keep an eye on sideman Scott McCaughey this weekend at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. On recent tours, you'd often find the Saratoga High School alum behind a bank of keyboards, painstakingly re-creating parts from one of the band's recent recordings. "(On) a lot of songs, I'd be playing three or four different keyboards on the same song," says McCaughey (pronounced "McCoy"). "That takes a lot of concentration and effort - and I'm even a worse keyboard player than I am a guitar player!" This time around, in support of the hard-driving, stripped-down "Accelerate" CD, R.E.M. is leaving most of the keyboards at home and letting McCaughey focus on his first musical love: electric guitar.... Posted on 30 May 2008 by Stoffel
Letterman Performance
The Baseball Project will be on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on June 20th.
Posted on 25 May 2008 by Stoffel
A couple of tidbits
The Baseball Project put on a small live show May 10th at the Capital Ale House. It was the night before Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon's wedding.
3 songs where played: Past Time Fernando The Death of Big Ed Delehanty We like to congratulate Steve and Linda, and wish them all the best for the future. *** The Northwest Noise blog caught up with Scott backstage at the Doug Fir Lounge before the Minus 5 gig of April 25 for a nice chat. You can download the interview here. Among other things, Scott talks about Minus 5, Robyn Hitchcock, Baseball Project and upcoming things. Pretty interesting stuff. Posted on 23 May 2008 by Stoffel
24 April - the doug fir lounge, Portland. Two new songs make their debut
Setlist:
In a Lonely Coffin Out There On The Maroon I'm Not Bitter You Don't Mean It The Little Black Egg With A Gun Time Bomb High School Buyin Drink, Bub Twilight Distillery New One Carmelita Lies Of The Living Dead Aw Shit Man Strychnine Thanks to Jane Posted on 21 May 2008 by Stoffel
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