The Baseball Project – Volume 2: High And Inside (Clear Green LP Vinyl)
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Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, and Linda Pitmon built The Baseball Project on the premise that baseball's strangest, saddest, and most overlooked stories deserve the same obsessive care that great rock and roll does. Where most jock rock coasts on anthemic generality, these four dig into the granular stuff, the cursed careers, the forgotten legends, the weird corners of the box score that only true fans know.
Following the success of the outfit's first album Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails - the band performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, was featured in the official World Series Program and Sports Illustrated among others - baseball's sardonic rock chroniclers are back with Volume 2: High and Inside, an even more detailed look at the stories behind the stories of America's Favorite Pastime. Their second season finds band members Steve Wynn (The Miracle 3, The Dream Syndicate), Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.), Linda Pitmon (The Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) drilling down even deeper into the Byzantine, lore-laden annals of baseball history. Volume 2 also includes guests spots by Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, as well as Chris Funk and John Moen of The Decemberists, dispelling any fears of a sophomore slump.
UPC: 634457069121
Label: Yep Roc Records
Release Date: 3.24.23
Format: LP Vinyl