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The Baseball Project | |
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 The Baseball Project, 2011 (left to right: Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, Peter Buck, and Scott McCaughey) | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Yep Roc |
| Members | Peter Buck Scott McCaughey Linda Pitmon Steve Wynn Mike Mills |
| Website | www |
The Baseball Project is asupergroup composed ofPeter Buck,Mike Mills,Scott McCaughey,Steve Wynn andLinda Pitmon formed in 2007. The performers came together from discussions between McCaughey and Wynn atR.E.M.'s March 21, 2007 induction into theRock and Roll Hall of Fame atthe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel inNew York City. They invited Buck to playbass guitar and Pitmon ondrums and recorded their first album,Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails later that year. Their first public appearance was onThe Late Show with David Letterman in June of 2008, preceding the release of any recorded material.
Buck and McCaughey have previously played together inRobyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3,The Minus 5,R.E.M., andTuatara. Wynn is the former leader ofThe Dream Syndicate as well asGutterball and has played with Pitmon inSteve Wynn & the Miracle 3. Pitmon also plays with Buck and McCaughey inFilthy Friends (withKurt Bloch andCorin Tucker) and their project withLuke Haines (of theAuteurs).
The band also recorded a 'real time' commentary on the 2010 baseball season forESPN.com: one song every month made available as a free download. The collection was released in 2011 asThe Broadside Ballads and also includes a few unreleased extra tracks fromVolume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails andVolume 2: High and Inside.
The second album from The Baseball Project,Volume 2: High and Inside, was released on March 1, 2011, on Yep Roc Records. The band followed the record's release with a tour covering the U.S. and appearances atspring training games in Arizona'sCactus League.[1] Mike Mills begins touring regularly with the band in 2012, taking over bass duties from Peter Buck. Buck moves over to his signature 12-string guitar role around this time.
Their third album,3rd, includes Mike Mills playing bass on all tracks for the first time on a Baseball Project recording, and was released in 2014. Not long after that the band played a special show inCooperstown, New York, at theBaseball Hall of Fame. In 2019 they played a 3-day residency at theRock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland as a part of theAll-Star Game festivities in the city.
Their fourth album,Grand Salami Time, was recorded with early R.E.M. collaboratorMitch Easter at his Fidelitorium Recordings studio inKernersville, N.C., and was released on June 30, 2023, onOmnivore Recordings. Special guests on release include Stephen McCarthy ofthe Long Ryders andthe Jayhawks andSteve Berlin ofLos Lobos.
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