Baseball Project tour Summer 09!

Sure, the name The Baseball Project may not spill off the lips as easily as say, Franz Ferdinand, but with key guys like members like Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3) and Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, and R.E.M), along with REM's Peter Buck and foxy drummer Linda Pitmon, you can count on some a-tastic rock show action comin' your way. The band is gonna follow up last year's Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails with another record and a six-week US tour! Whoo-hoo! (But will Peter Buck be playing bass the whole time??? Mr. 6-string arpeggio?)

Singer-songwriter Steve Wynn wrote on his MySpace blog this weekend --- "But the baseball season has begun and with it has come news that The Baseball Project will be doing a festival in Spain in August followed by a six-week US tour later that month and stretching into October. This is great news. I really enjoyed making that record and was disappointed that we were only able to do 2 gigs (that would be our wedding and the Letterman show, a weird First Two Gigs for any band) when the record came out. We’ll certainly make up for lost time before the year is over—dates soon to come.

It also looks like we’ll be making a follow-up to “Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails” before the tour begins so I suddenly find myself being able to justify baseball watching as Actual Research, an immersion songwriting program (watered-down beer and stale peanuts can only help the process, I suppose). And then the Miracle 3 will be hitting the studio towards the end of the year. In other words, a busy year ahead. Just don’t book anything for late October. That would be the World Series."

Here's the band doing one of those aforementioned two gigs from last year - the clip is from Letterman, the band doing "Past Time" (geddit?)...