8.11.10: Baseball Project Free Download #6!

Quote: "No-hitters are back in style in a big way this season, but if a major league hitter can finally get the first Triple Crown in 43 years, it would certainly be a flashback to the 1960s.

That has inspired The Baseball Project to release the '60s pop-styled "(Do The) Triple Crown," the latest in the band's season-long Broadside Ballads series of songs that the band is giving away for free all season on ESPN.com. "

Click here to read more, give a listen AND download!

8.11.10: Medicine Show Re-Release

The 2010 version of "Medicine Show" available now!

After a 20-year wait, the Dream Syndicate's 2nd album "Medicine Show" finally returns to CD and this new version is an update worthy of the wait.

The 2010 digipack version of the 1984 classic features a sparkling, powerful sound, mastered from the original tapes as well as an expanded booklet with revelatory liner notes by David Fricke never seen before photos from the archives of Laura Levine.

And if that wasn't enough, this new version includes the entire "This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate.....Live" -including the lengthy workout of "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" which didn't make the cut on the original 1991 reissue.

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8.20.10: Baseball Project Weekend Wrap-up by Scott McCaughey

Quote: "The Baseball Project took the stage to much fanfare, with Mike Mills flanked by Steve Wynn and I, and Linda driving the whole thing from the back seat. We performed the entire Volume One album, plus the latest Broadside Ballad "(Do The) Triple Crown" (available for download at espn.com), a song from our upcoming Volume 2 called "Panda & The Freak", and some classics from the Dream Syndicate, Minus 5, and Steve Wynn catalogs."

Read more from Scott at R.E.M.'s official site.

7.27.10: Washington City Paper: And Now, a Song About Stephen Strasburg

Quote: "D.C. is the epicenter of Stephen Strasburg fever—but whether the rest of the country likes it or not, the virus is spreading. Spreading even into the mind of singer/guitarist/Yankee fan Steve Wynn."

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8.10.10: Baseball Project Free Download #5!

The minimalistic, folk-styled "Phenom" affectionately describes Strasburg's meteoric rise to the majors at 21 years old, just one year after being drafted. Singer and guitarist Steve Wynn, who wrote "Phenom," said he wanted to write the song from the pitcher's imagined perspective, which would be "a little wary of all of the early praise, a little fearful that the glory and the magic could fade away at any time and merely wanting to keep his head down and begin a distinguished, long career."

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7.02.10: Blurt Online: Back to Medicine Show

Quote: "Listened to now, track-by-track, Medicine Show has, if anything, grown stronger since its original release. It's long been my favorite Dream Syndicate album, a fact I'm hard-pressed to pinpoint exactly why. There's a balancing act going on between the old-school rock of my youth and the punk-powered music that galvanized me as a young adult, and there's a sonic ambiance that alternately baffles and delights me; the record's like a foreign film that I don't fully comprehend but which leaves me deeply haunted for weeks after seeing it."

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6.15.10: Review and history of Medicine Show

Quote:"Back in early 1984, the Dream Syndicate was one of the most promising bands of the Paisley Underground, a Los Angeles-based psychedelic-pop revival that spawned the Bangles, the Three O'Clock and the Rain Parade. The group was led by singer-songwriter Steve Wynn, who had penned a bouquet of catchy tunes for the Syndicate's 1982 debut, "The Days of Wine and Roses." By the time their second album dropped, they were with a major label and opening for the hottest act on college radio, R.E.M."

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7.09.10: The Latest Download from The Baseball Project!

The latest free download, "Lima Time", is in tribute to pitcher Jose Lima.

From Scott: "He was one of those players that had some success, but also really struggled a lot. It's not such an unusual story. I guess what made it unusual was his obvious love of the game, and the way I imagine he reminded those whom he played with to enjoy themselves."

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5.28.10: Seattle Times: The Baseball Project performing tonight at The Tractor

Word of the Baseball Project show announced by Larry Stone in "The Hot Stone League". Cool overview of BP.

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6.09.10: Download Third Song from Broadside Ballads

Song number three, "30 Doc", is now available for download!

This one, penned by Steve, hits topics of Roy "Doc" Halladay and 30 game winning pitchers.

"I know the odds are mighty slim; But nobody's got a better chance than him," Wynn, who wrote the lyrics, sings. "30 Doc" is the third in a season-long series of songs The Baseball Project is giving away free, exclusively on ESPN.com.

Please visit ESPN for the download and details, click here

5.06.10: Hartford Courant: Steve Wynn Leads Miracle 3 To Cafe Nine Saturday

Excerpt: "Thirty years into his career as a musician and songwriter, Steve Wynn is harder than ever to pin down. A cult figure thanks to his time in Dream Syndicate in the '80s and Gutterball in the '90s, his last album was recorded in Slovenia, of all places."

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5.11.10: Download second song from Broadside Ballads

The second track from The Baseball Project's Broadside Ballads is now available to download free.

ESPN's "The Life" has a new article and information about the album:

"As Opening Day arrives, predictions about the new baseball season are rampant, and The Baseball Project is no exception. The band, however, has put its projection to music with the latest "Broadside Ballads" song, "Cubs 2010.""

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5.11.10: The Baseball Project on WNYC

Steve and Linda stopped by WNYC for show all about baseball music:

"As the Yankees prepare to battle the Boston Red Sox in the major-league season opener this weekend, we look at the peanut-butter-and-jelly relationship between baseball and popular music. And, our listeners reveal their favorite baseball-inspired songs...We’re joined by Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon, two members of an indie-rock supergroup called The Baseball Project."

To hear the broadcast, please click here.

3.24.10: Steve Wynn Delaware at Dogfish Head concert

Quote: "“I’ve never played in Delaware, so I’m looking forward to it,” Wynn said by telephone from his New York home. “We’re going to be playing an extra-long show like we do in Europe, which gives us a chance to stretch out a little.”"

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4.05.10: The Baseball Project | Broadside Ballads

The Baseball Project will be releasing one free MP3 a month all season long, making the tracks available at ESPN.com.

From Steve: "I think it will be a lot of fun just to kind of see what's going on and get fired up about something. And instead of just writing bemused e-mails to each other, we'll put chords behind it and call it a song"

Please click the links below for more details:

Broadside Ballads

ESPN: The Baseball Project Steps up to the plate.

ESPN: Chat: The Baseball Project's Steve Wynn

3.09.10: Web Chat with Steve at ESPN Sports Nation

Steve will join ESPN's SportsNation for a web chat about the next Baseball Project release.

The chat is on Tuesday, March 9th, 2pm ET, but you can send in questions now!

To read more details at ESPN, please click here.

And for the the word from Steve, you can check out his latest Diary entry by clicking here.

4.02.10: Steve & the Miracle 3 Revisit The Dream Syndicate

Steve and the Miracle 3 will take a break from the recording of their new album with a 2-night stand at the 529 club in Atlanta to kick of the reissue of "Medicine Show" by The Dream Syndicate.

The band will play "Medicine Show" from start-to-finish the first night and then "The Days of Wine And Roses" on the second, both sets fortified with many extra songs both old and brand new.

Tickets are on sale: Click here to purchase.

1.23.10: Chicago Tribune: Baseball project combines indie rockers' love of hardball, music

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1.23.10: Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY): Baseball music

Every song on “Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails” is about baseball; the liner notes helpfully explain what each song is about. The Baseball Project have a wry sense of humor, but they also really care about baseball — its history, mystique, characters and legends...

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3.05.10: Steve Wynn Live Music Archive

After a year of designing, dubbing and moving bits and pieces into place, the Steve Wynn Live Music Archive and Tape Traders Database is up at traders.stevewynn.net.

The site houses an incredible collection of Steve's shows from all of his various projects over the last 30 years. You can look up Steve's live music by band, tour, year and even song by song. And all the music is available for free, quick and easy download. (kudos to Jens Jakob Sorensen and Thomas Mejer Hansen).

12.06.09: Guitar Hero Series: Steve Wynn

"There's a reason why Philadelphia Weekly calls Steve Wynn "One of rock's true heroes of the underground." Playing guitar, writing song, and performing for 25 years, Steve Wynn has a style of music that has been compared to Neil Yong and John Lennon. He has a contemporary flare with a classic rock sensibility. He was said to be part of the pioneers who brought indie rock to the trendy music scene of the 1980s. "

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10.31.09: Music Legend Steve Wynn Loves the Yankees

Quote: "Steve, a devoted Yankees obsessive (friends have expressed concern) weighs in here with his feelings about the 2009 Yankees and what we can expect from a truly intriguing series."

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1.08.10: Steve on the World Cafe | Wednesday Oct 28

Steve says, "I seem to remember it being a good session".

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1.23.10: Video: Steve, Peter Case and Marvin Etzioni at McCabes

"Wait Until You Get To Know Me" at McCabe's for a 2008 taping of Extra.

10.27.09: Steve talking baseball & a little bit of music

On Atlanta Baseball Talk:

Steve Wynn discusses The Baseball Project's album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails as well as this year’s post season.

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