Baseball Ballads - 2090

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Review "Baseball's troubadour poet laureate...creates a new chapter in the folklore of our national pastime." -- Tim Wiles, director of research, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library "Breathless tales...short stories...one of the most pleasing voices in the genre." -- Creative Loafing (Charlotte, North Carolina) "Brodsky hits these tracks out of the park...These are tales of baseball s quirky, dedicated and sometimes unloved participants." -- Asheville Citizen-Times (June, 2002) "Brodsky turns his eye for irony on the whole of baseball history, and comes up with some spectacularly improbable stories." -- PopMatters "Often overlooked when critics remark on Brodsky s baseball tunes is that these are, first and foremost, people stories." -- The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) "One of the most insightful and well-rounded collections of baseball songs in recent memory...classics worthy of the national pastime." -- Baseball America (November 11 - 24, 2002) "The CD's a history lesson, delivered by an excellent storyteller, that serves up some of the odder personalities in baseball." -- LouisvilleMusic.com "These songs are not so much about baseball as they are about people...vehicles for larger messages." -- Dirty Linen "This is a grand-slam home run of an album!" -- Dirty Linen, February/March 2003 "Tremendous new CD...This is gorgeous music that might even teach you a little baseball history while you're singing along." -- Jayson Stark, ESPN.com Product Description 'Baseball's troubadour poet laureate...Chuck combines his gift for lyrics and melody with his love for baseball history and culture, and in the process creates a new chapter in the folklore of our national pastime.' ---Tim Wiles, director of research, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library 'A sharp eye for detail, a wicked sense of humor and the ability to create memorable characters.' ---Philadelphia Inquirer 'Passionate observer - twister, remaker, syncopator of the simple tale, the not-so-simple cliche...Social commitment and the individual heart go hand in hand with humor, wit, and longing.' ---Village Voice (New York, NY) 'One of the most insightful and well-rounded collections of baseball songs in recent memory...The Baseball Ballads serves as a reminder to fans about why the game pulls on the heartstrings of anyone who has rooted for the home team...Brodsky's songs pinpoint the everyday details that comprise a player's life and create baseball history...The outcome is a fascinating collection of ballads that can be considered classics worthy of the national pastime.' ---Baseball America 'And then there's Chuck Brodsky's tremendous new CD of all baseball songs, 'The Baseball Ballads,' also in the folky, countrified genre...This is gorgeous music that might even teach you a little baseball history while you're singing along.' ---Jayson Stark (ESPN) 'This is a grand-slam home run of an album!' ---Dirty Linen 'The Baseball Ballads is full of songs about misfits and faded glories...Brodsky's clean fingerpicking, shaggy-dog twang and gentle melodies give the album an easy coherence, but the stories and characters are what count. These tales, obsessively researched and rendered with off-beat affection, put some skewed humanity back in a game that needs it.' ---No Depression 'The Baseball Ballads is a collection of songs celebrating little-remembered heroes and goats, a smorgasbord of bizarro baseball history that serves as an affectionate antidote to the game's current ills...Brodsky's mix of comedy, tragedy, and sentimental storytelling will make a lot more sense even to a neophyte than the recent rounds of salary demands and profit-sharing negotiations...Brodsky turns his eye for irony on the whole of baseball history, and comes up with some spectacularly improbable stories...Brodsky (who has an amiable Dylanish twang) sings about baseball the way it used to be: unpredictable, colorful, somehow laden with moral force...he enshrines a game that mostly exists in me
ASIN: B00006BSV1
VSKU: COV.B00006BSV1.N
Condition: New
Author:Chuck Brodsky|Jack Norworth|Jennifer Hersch|Brandon Bush|Kristian Bush|Dave Anthony|Don McCollister
Binding: Audio cd