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Supergroup the Baseball Project — comprising former R.E.M. members Peter Buck and Mike Mills, Steve Wynn (the Dream Syndicate), Scott McCaughey (the Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows), and Linda Pitmon (Filthy Friends, Alejandro Escovedo) — have introduced their fourth studio album, Grand Salami Time!. Due out June 30 through Omnivore Recordings, Grand Salami Time! follows 2014’s third and includes a jangly, country-tinged lead single, “Journeyman.”
The band’s first launch in 9 years, Grand Salami Time! was produced by R.E.M. favourite Mitch Easter. (A press launch additionally notes that this will probably be Easter’s last album.) It was additionally recorded at Easter’s Fidelitorium Studios in Kernersville, North Carolina, with your complete band performing reside collectively in the identical room. There’s additionally visitor guitar work by Easter, plus as appearances by Stephen McCarthy (The Long Ryders) and Steve Berlin (Los Lobos).
“I was in a hotel room just outside of Buffalo when I got an email from Peter with an instrumental version of this song,” says Wynn, who wrote the tune with Buck. “The words came immediately, not surprising since a veteran musician stringing together a series of one-night stands has more than a little in common with a left-handed relief specialist who plays for a dozen teams in a workmanlike career. Extra points for anyone who picked up on the Walter White quote.”
Listen to “Journeyman” beneath.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Grand Salami Time”
02 “The Yips”
03 “Screwball”
04 “Uncle Charlie”
05 “Journeyman”
06 “Erasable Man”
07 “New Oh In Town”
08 “Disco Demolition”
09 “Stuff”
10 “The All Or Nothings”
11 “That’s Living”
12 “64 And 64”
13 “Having Fun”
14 “Fantasy Baseball Widow”
15 “The Voice Of Baseball”
TOURDATES:
08/08 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
08/09 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
08/10 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
08/11 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
08/12 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheater *
08/13 – Myrtle Beach, SC @ House Of Blues *
08/15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
08/16 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall
08/17 – Washington, D.C. @ The Hamilton
08/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Made
08/19 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
08/20 – Ridgefield, CT @ The Ridgefield Playhouse
08/22 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
08/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird Music Hall
08/24 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
08/25 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Beer Garden
08/26 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe @ Old National Centre
08/27 – Evanston, IL @ Space
08/28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
08/31 – Evanston, IL @ Space
09/01 – Louisville, KY @ The Whirling Tiger
09/02 – Memphis, TN @ Overton Park Shell
* with Jason Isbell
Grand Salami Time! will probably be out 6/30 through Omnivore Recordings. Pre-order it right here.
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