It’s been a little while since we paid tribute to Nels Cline, so, um, let’s do that… We’ve declared a few times recently that Nels Cline joining Wilco may just
October has begun, which means it’s time for baseball’s postseason. The playoffs kicked off last night, and I can’t remember a better collection of eight teams fighting for the championship, whether young and scrappy or experienced and powerful. Baseball and live music are similar in that you never know what’s going to happen when you enter a venue. You may see your boys play the game or show of their lives, or you may see their hopes crushed by a bad performance.
Given the similarities between music and sport, it’s no wonder that many baseball players are also musicians. So this week’s B List looks at eight baseball players who can handle both a fastball and the pentatonic scale with ease.
1. Bernie Williams: The Yankees longtime centerfielder is also a critically acclaimed guitar player who has released an album entitled The Journey Within. Bernie has a few connections to the jamband world thanks to his appearance at the Jammys in 2001, and his recent sit-in with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon.
Read on after the jump for a video of Bernie playing Who’s Been Talking with that other Derek, and for seven more baseball musicians as well…
The world wide supernet buzzed with the news that Wu-Tang Clan had been the first band to attain legal permission to sample The Beatles. But that beepbeepbeeping sound you hear
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With Neko Case and Dan Bejar playing live with The New Pornographers, artists that had two of 2006’s best albums (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Destroyer’s Rubies), the evening’s performance in Tucson could have been billed as: The New Pornographers feat: Neko Case and Dan Bejar.
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